New Harmony
Heritage Village · New Harmony, Indiana
A village on the Wabash in the far southwest corner of Indiana that housed two nationally significant utopian experiments within a decade. The Harmonists, a German pietist communal society under George Rapp, built it from 1814 and sold the whole town in 1825 to Robert Owen, the Welsh industrialist and social reformer, whose community of scientists and educators collapsed within two years but left behind a concentration of natural scientists that made New Harmony a centre of American geology. The town now holds Philip Johnson's Roofless Church of 1960 and Richard Meier's Atheneum of 1979 alongside the Harmonist buildings.
401 North Arthur Street, New Harmony, Indiana, 47631, United States
The town, the Roofless Church and both labyrinths are open at all times and free. The Atheneum and the guided historic building tours run on a seasonal schedule, generally April to October, with reduced or no operation in winter. Check before travelling.