 In order to establish a novitiate and relocate the ministry, in 1890 Mother Veronica purchased from James Tilford, a fourteen acre estate on Broadway in White Plains, New York, including a three-story frame house built in 1856, with carpets and furniture for $25,000.The Tilford House was built in 1856 by Eugene T. Preudhomme for John M. Tilford of Park and Tilford.Dannat and Preston named it Good Counsel Farm and created the Vacation House for Working Girls there.