{"id":44765,"date":"2025-12-02T16:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44765"},"modified":"2025-12-02T16:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:25:04","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-global-doorstep-a-town-wants-to-give-away-its-100-year-old-convent-is-it-a-housing-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44765","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the Global doorstep\u2019: A town wants to give away its 100-year-old convent: is it a housing solution?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/512px-Gravelbourg_Convent_of_Jesus_and_Mary_by_Archyfb_Commons_Wiki_021225.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"482\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/512px-Gravelbourg_Convent_of_Jesus_and_Mary_by_Archyfb_Commons_Wiki_021225.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44766\" style=\"width:581px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/512px-Gravelbourg_Convent_of_Jesus_and_Mary_by_Archyfb_Commons_Wiki_021225.png 482w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/512px-Gravelbourg_Convent_of_Jesus_and_Mary_by_Archyfb_Commons_Wiki_021225-300x175.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><sub>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Gravelbourg_Convent_of_Jesus_and_Mary.jpg\">Convent of Jesus and Mary, Gravelbourg<\/a> by Archyfb, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a> , via Wikimedia Commons<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gravelbourg, Sask., looks for a visionary to give historic building a new life, reports CBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>CBC writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026&nbsp; It\u2019s hard to miss the giant building at the entrance to the Town of Gravelbourg, a community of less than 1,000 people located about 150 kilometres southwest of Regina. It dominates the landscape \u2014 as does the question of its future\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the town would really like to see is a housing project, something that would fill what Haug sees as a real need in this community, as it is elsewhere in Canada.&nbsp;&nbsp; \u2018Something of this size you&#8217;ll never see again. It&#8217;s an original,\u2019 she said\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 Giesen-Stefiuk knows just how iconic and important historic buildings can be, and how much they mean to the psyche of a place\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/saskatchewan\/gravelbourg-convent-housing-9.6945790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: Convent of Jesus and Mary, Gravelbourg by Archyfb, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Gravelbourg, Sask., looks for a visionary to give historic building a new life, reports CBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,18,30,23,29,11,16],"class_list":["post-44765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-conservation","tag-environment","tag-expertise","tag-heritage","tag-housing","tag-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44767,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44765\/revisions\/44767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}