Boulder City convent purchased by church

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Monday, Sept. 25, 2000 | 5 a.m.

The church bought the 17,000-square-foot building for about $1 million, said Bret Runion, the real estate agent who handled the sale.

The 40-room structure, built in 1931 to serve as a hospital for the men constructing Hoover Dam, had been owned by the Sisters of Charity.

The nuns ran the property as a retreat and leased it out to various religious groups, businesses and nonprofit organizations in the Las Vegas Valley and around the country.

The buyer plans to continue to use the site as a location for retreats, Runion said.

The sisters have relocated to West Virginia where they purchased a smaller property where they hold special retreats, Runion said.

The sisters are the only United States-based extension of the Episcopalian order based in England. The Sisters of Charity order bought the two-acre property in 1979.