Since it opened in 1934, the Franciscan Monastery of St. Clare has been a well-known landmark in Jamaica Plain. Nestled between the beautiful Arnold Arboretum and busy Arborway rotary, the ...

Developer John Holland plans to transform the Poor Clare Nuns Monastery in Jamaica Plain into 38 units of senior housing and build an 85-unit condo building behind the existing monastery.

A former monastery built in the 1930s in Jamaica Plain may soon be repurposed into ... its intent to redevelop the Franciscan Poor Clare Nuns Monastery at 920 Centre St., creating 38 apartments ...

The Franciscan Monastery of St. Clare has adorned the corner of Centre Street and the Arborway in Jamaica Plain for nearly 90 years, but the nuns who have called the building home for decades are ...