Historic New Harmony Image Map

Click on a building to find out more about the sites of Historic New Harmony.


 



Sites include:
 
 
Atheneum/Visitors Center: Designed by the internationally known architect Richard Meier. The name Atheneum is dervied from the Greek Athenaion, which means "temple of learning".
Lenz House: Multi-level family dwelling shows Harmonist daily life, crafts, arts, and industries.
Roofless Church: This walled garden, conceived by famed architect Philip Johnson, is an inter-denominational church with only the sky as roof.
West Street Cabins: Log cabins depict life during the early Harmonist period in Indiana, 1814-1819.
Fauntleroy House: Victorian period home of Jane Dale Owen Fauntleroy and her family, birthplace of one of the earliest woman's clubs in America, the Minerva Society.
Community House #2: Brick Harmonist communal dwelling shows the transition from the Harmonist period to the Owne-Maclure social experiment.
Thrall's Opera House: From Harmonist communal home to Victorian Theatre: New Harmony social life and entertainment.
Keppler House: An exhibition of the life and career of David Dale Owen and the development of early geology in America.
1830 Owen House: Daily life in post-communal New Harmony including an exhibition of works by Jacob Maentel.
Harmonist Labyrinth: Re-creation of a "Pleasure Garden" maze origionally designed by the Harmonists. For the Harmonists, the maze symbolized the difficulties of attaining true harmony and the choices one faces in life trying to reach that goal.

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