Lenz House, New Harmony, IN (2)
**New Harmony Historic District** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 66000006, date listed 10/15/1966
Main St. between Granary and Church Sts.
New Harmony, IN (Posey County)
A National Historic Landmark (www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/list-of-nh...).
New Harmony is a small rural Indiana town, 27 miles northwest of Evansville, with an agricultural economic base. The community was founded in 1814 by George Rappand his German pietist followers who moved there from Harmony, Pennsylvania. At the time of auction in 1825, the community contained some 180 brick, frame and log structures. Robert Owen, an English industrialist and philanthropist, bought the property and began a social community which lasted only two years, though the importance of the community lasted up to the Civil War. After this period, the community, whose population has not greatly increased from this early period shifted into a typical midwestern town and a number of the older buildings were lost and a majority greatly altered. Today there are only about 35 of the original Rappite-Owenite buildings standing scattered throughout New Harmony. A concentration of these buildings are located between West Street and a few feet of Brewary Street. (1)
David Lenz House, 324 North Street, contributing (part of existing NHL designation) c. 1822 timber frame, two-story Harmonist residence with beaded clapboard siding. The wood shingle, end gable roof is oriented east west with entrance on the west end. Windows are 6 over 6 lights. A shed roof addition with non-beaded clapboard projects from the north side. (pg 7) (2)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form catalog.archives.gov/id/132002419
Lenz House, New Harmony, IN (2)
**New Harmony Historic District** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 66000006, date listed 10/15/1966
Main St. between Granary and Church Sts.
New Harmony, IN (Posey County)
A National Historic Landmark (www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/list-of-nh...).
New Harmony is a small rural Indiana town, 27 miles northwest of Evansville, with an agricultural economic base. The community was founded in 1814 by George Rappand his German pietist followers who moved there from Harmony, Pennsylvania. At the time of auction in 1825, the community contained some 180 brick, frame and log structures. Robert Owen, an English industrialist and philanthropist, bought the property and began a social community which lasted only two years, though the importance of the community lasted up to the Civil War. After this period, the community, whose population has not greatly increased from this early period shifted into a typical midwestern town and a number of the older buildings were lost and a majority greatly altered. Today there are only about 35 of the original Rappite-Owenite buildings standing scattered throughout New Harmony. A concentration of these buildings are located between West Street and a few feet of Brewary Street. (1)
David Lenz House, 324 North Street, contributing (part of existing NHL designation) c. 1822 timber frame, two-story Harmonist residence with beaded clapboard siding. The wood shingle, end gable roof is oriented east west with entrance on the west end. Windows are 6 over 6 lights. A shed roof addition with non-beaded clapboard projects from the north side. (pg 7) (2)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form catalog.archives.gov/id/132002419