Mount Saviour Monastery Explained

Mount Saviour Monastery
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Coordinates:42.09°N -76.9594°W
Built:c. -1964
Architect:J. Sanford Shanley & Ronald E. Cassetti
Architecture:Italianate, Gothic Revival, Abstract Modernist
Added:January 27, 2015
Refnum:14001213[1]

Mount Saviour Monastery is a historic farm and monastery campus within a national historic district located near Pine City, Chemung County, New York.

It encompasses 10 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites on a working farm in continuous operation since 1865. The monastery was founded in 1950 and the property is owned by the Benedictine Foundation of New York State. Located on the property are the contributing Our Lady Queen of Peace Chapel (1953) and East and West Buildings (1964), St. Joseph's House (1954-1957), St. Peter's House (Former Nagel/Hofbauer House, 1874), St. Gertrude's House (Former Durmstadt House, 1865), Mount Saviour Monastic Cemetery (1960), Good Shepherd Lay Cemetery (1955), St. Peter's Barn (Former Nagel/Hofbauer Barn, c.1890/1942), Main barn (1959), Arts & Crafts Building & Storage (Former Shop Building and Kiln, 1962/1973), Wagner House (Former Neilitz House, 1879), St. James's House (Former Harding House, 1870), and Annex (Former milk house and now monastery guest house, 1870/1961).[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.[1]

The Monastery of Christ in the Desert in Abiquiú, New Mexico developed from Mount Saviour in 1964.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places. 2015-02-06. Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 1/26/15 through 1/30/15 . National Park Service.
  2. Web site: Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Searchable database. 2015-11-01. https://archive.today/20150701003048/http://cris.parks.ny.gov/. 2015-07-01. dead. Note: This includes Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Mount Saviour Monastery. 2015-11-01. Susan Gordon Lawson and Virginia L. Bartos. PDF. September 2014. and Accompanying photographs
  3. https://christdesert.org/about/ "About us", Monastery of Christ in the Desert