Charterhouse of the Transfiguration
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The Charterhouse of the Transfiguration is the only Carthusian
monastery in the USA, located on Mt. Equinox, outside Arlington, Vermont.
The 7000 acres (28.3 km²) property was donated by Joseph George Davidson
, a retired Union Carbide Corporation executive.
The charterhouse
was designed by architect
Victor Christ-Janer
& Associates of New Canaan, Connecticut
, and fabricated of Vermont granite
blocks.
Carthusian
The Carthusian Order, also called the Order of St. Bruno, is a Roman Catholic religious order of enclosed monastics. The order was founded by Saint Bruno of Cologne in 1084 and includes both monks and nuns...
monastery in the USA, located on Mt. Equinox, outside Arlington, Vermont.
The 7000 acres (28.3 km²) property was donated by Joseph George Davidson
Joseph George Davidson
Joseph George Davidson was an American chemist and inventor.Davidson was born February 7, 1892, in New York City, a son of John Wellington and Theresa Davidson. The family moved to California when he was an infant...
, a retired Union Carbide Corporation executive.
The charterhouse
Charterhouse
A Charterhouse is a Carthusian monastery. The word is derived from Chartreuse, the first monastery of the order having been established in a valley of the Chartreuse Mountains.It can refer to numerous monasteries:It can also refer to:...
was designed by architect
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
Victor Christ-Janer
Victor Christ-Janer
Victor F. Christ-Janer was an American modernist architect.Victor Christ-Janer was born in Elysian, Minnesota on March 27, 1915 and raised in nearby Waterville. Mr. Christ-Janer trained in liberal arts, sculpting, painting, and architecture at St. Olaf College from the years 1933-1935...
& Associates of New Canaan, Connecticut
New Canaan, Connecticut
New Canaan is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, northeast of Stamford, on the Fivemile River. The population was 19,738 according to the 2010 census.The town is one of the most affluent communities in the United States...
, and fabricated of Vermont granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
blocks.