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Historic Register Adds
O'Reilly House On Aviles(
The O'Reilly House, 131 have existed in 1763 and could Don Miguel O'Reilly to the
Aviles St., has been given the have been built as early as 1690, Roman Catholic Church in trust
prestigious honor of being has been expanded and altered, for a future religious corn-
added to the National Register but retains the vestiges of the munity.
of Historic Places, according to
the Department of State's
Division of Archives, History
and Records Management.
THE TWO-STORY coquina
block house, which is known to
origin al construction, including
"a tvibby interior partition
which was once an exterior
wall."
The property was willed by
THE HOUSE has served as a
rectory, a free school for Negro
children following the Civil
War, a Catholic school and is
now a museum operated by the
Sisters of St. Joseph.
Application for consideration
in the historic register was
made early in 1963.
Record photo by Dennis Winn
The O'Reilly House
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