Built 1790 Address La Plata, MD 20646, USA Area 4,047 m² Architect Philip H. Frohman | NRHP Reference # 73000913 Opened 1790 Added to NRHP 4 December 1973 | |
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Location North of Port Tobacco on Mt. Carmel Rd., Port Tobacco, Maryland Similar St Thomas Manor, Thomas Stone National, African American Heritage, St Clement's Island Sta, St Catharine | ||
The Mt. Carmel Monastery is a historic monastery located at Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-part frame house, the main block of which was built about 1790 and restored in 1936-37, and consists of a two-story structure with a moderately pitched gable roof. The entire house, devoid of any extraneous ornamentation, reflects the austerity of the life of the Carmelite nuns who are believed to have used this house as their residence. The monastery was founded on October 15, 1790, by four Belgian Carmelite nuns, three of them former natives of Charles County. In 1831 the nuns then in residence were ordered to transfer the convent to Baltimore, Maryland, and this property was abandoned. In 1933 an organization called the Restorers of Mt. Carmel in Maryland, formed to aid in the restoration of the site.
The Mt. Carmel Monastery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.