The brick building across the street opened in 1928 as the Convent of Bon Secours, whose sisters had arrived in Baltimore from France in 1881 and quietly nursed both wealthy and needy patients in their homes. Soon after moving to Tenleytown in 1905, they aided the community during frequent typhoid and influenza epidemics, and neighbors remembered the exquisite lace and other handwork they created in their spare time. As people turned to hospitals for nursing care, the sisters explored expanding their convent for on-site care but lacked the necessary resources, so they sold the building to the Embassy of France. The French International School held classes there in the late 1960s, followed by the all-girls Oakcrest School, and in 2010 the Yuma Study Center planned to occupy the old convent, a city Historic Landmark since 2004. Hidden nearby is Dunblane, one of the last remaining estate houses in Tenleytown, a Greek Revival style country retreat built in the early 1800s that later hosted the elite Dumblane Hunt when fox hunting grew fashionable. Its grounds were eventually sold for Immaculata Seminary, and the old mansion was adapted for elementary school classes. Today American University’s Tenley Campus occupies the mansion and its historic grounds. Also nearby is St. Ann’s Church, a Tenleytown institution dating back to 1866; the present building, dedicated in 1948 as the church’s third on this site, is an example of the urban Roman Catholic parish churches built between 1900 and the Great Depression of the 1930s.