Holy Cross Monastery (West Park, New York)

Holy Cross Monastery is located on US 9W in West Park, New York, United States.

The building, designed in a combination of Mission/Spanish Revival and Tudorbethan styles by architects Ralph Adams Cram and Henry Vaughan, both known for their religious buildings, began construction in 1902 and was dedicated two years later.

Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, ran a retreat in conjunction with a writers' workshop every January for much of her life.

[4] In keeping with the order's devotion to progressive social causes, they kept a peace vigil on Saturdays during the Iraq War.

Today it serves as the order's house of formation, where new initiates begin their training.