It is the first foundation of that Order in the United States, and the first Catholic educational institution west of the Allegheny Mountains.

Its most famous student was Jefferson Davis, the future president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Later this convent moved to another location in Washington County, Kentucky and founded Saint Catharine College.

The original St. Rose church remains, though much of the old priory buildings (including the college and old novitiate) were torn down in 1978.

This article about a property in Washington County, Kentucky on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.