The three-acre property consists of the house with an attached one-story chapel and dormitory and a small detached two-story house.  The house is the only large residential building in the Barnum subdivision of Denver.  In 1924, the property was purchased by the Sisters of St. Francis for a tuberculosis sanitarium (1924-41) and the chapel, dormitory and small house were added.  The present facility, Savio House, is a home and educational facility for delinquent children.