Mount St. Joseph Academy (West Hartford, Connecticut)

The Mount St. Joseph Academy is a historic former school building at 1 Hamilton Heights Drive in West Hartford, Connecticut.

It is a four- and five-story brick and stone structure with Colonial Revival styling, designed by Hartford architect John J. Dwyer and built in 1905-08.

[1] In 1996 the building was renovated for use as an assisted living facility, which presently (2013) is operated as Atria Hamilton Heights[3] The former Mount St. Joseph Academy stands on a landscaped hilltop at the southwest junction of Fern Street and Hamilton Avenue in eastern West Hartford.

The interior central lobby spaces have retained original features and finishes despite conversion of the premises from a school to assisted living.

It promptly opened a school for girls, which moved to larger quarters on Farmington Avenue in 1874 and was then given the name Mount St. Joseph Seminary.