Mount Carmel Monastery

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.

References

External links
, including photo from 1969, at Maryland Historical Trust
Restorers of Mount Carmel in Maryland
"Mesmerized by Mt. Carmel Monastery, Port Tobacco, Maryland," Southern Maryland Living
Discalced Nuns of the Carmel of Port Tobacco

Category:Belgian-American history
Category:Houses in Charles County, Maryland
Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Category:Houses completed in 1790
Category:Carmelite monasteries in the United States
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Charles County, Maryland