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Coordinates: 38°33′21″N 77°0′1″W / 38.55583°N 77.00028°W / 38.55583; -77.00028
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Mt. Carmel Monastery
Mt. Carmel Monastery and Chapel, September 2009
Mount Carmel Monastery is located in Maryland
Mount Carmel Monastery
Mount Carmel Monastery is located in the United States
Mount Carmel Monastery
LocationNorth of Port Tobacco on Mt. Carmel Rd., Port Tobacco, Maryland
Coordinates38°33′21″N 77°0′1″W / 38.55583°N 77.00028°W / 38.55583; -77.00028
Built1790
ArchitectPhilip Hubert Frohman
NRHP reference No.73000913[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 4, 1973

The Mt. Carmel Monastery is a historic monastery located in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, United States. It comprises a two-part frame house, with the main block constructed around 1790 and restored in 1936–37. It features a two-story structure with a moderately pitched gable roof. The house's design, devoid of any extraneous ornamentation, reflects the austere lifestyle of the Carmelite nuns who are believed to have used it as their residence.

The monastery was founded on October 15, 1790, by four English-speaking Carmelite nuns from what is now Belgium, including Ann Teresa Mathews. Three of the nuns were born in Charles County,[citation needed] while the fourth, Frances Dickinson, was from London.[2] Like thousands of English Roman Catholic girls who wanted to be nuns, Dickinson had traveled to Belgium to enter a convent there, as none was left in England. She served as the first prioress until her death in 1830.[2]

In 1831, the nuns then in residence were ordered by the bishop to transfer the convent to Baltimore, Maryland. This property in Port Tobacco was abandoned. In 1933 an organization called the Restorers of Mt. Carmel in Maryland formed to aid in the restoration of the site.[3]

The Mt. Carmel Monastery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ a b "Dickinson, Frances [name in religion Clare Joseph of the Heart of Jesus] (1755–1830), prioress at Port Tobacco Carmel, Maryland". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/105822. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 2021-03-01. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ J. Richard Rivoire (May 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mount Carmel Monastery" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
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