Thirty-one American Catholic men, seeking to live the full Benedictine life, went to Abbey of Our Lady of the Assumption at Fontgombault, France, which is a monastery of the Solesmes Congregation.

[1] Clear Creek is the second monastery of the Solesmes Congregation established in the United States; the first is a house of nuns at Westfield, Vermont.

People look to this monastery as a new beginning, as a new element that has a solid backing in a long tradition of monastic life.”[3] Clear Creek is now actively recruiting to its full capacity of 60-70 monks.

[1][3] Clear Creek currently houses 60 monks, and in recent years, a community of lay families have started to gather around the abbey.

The west façade, the nave, and the transept were raised to half their planned height.