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This location is at the corner of West St. and Granary St. The house on the left is now the James A. Sanders Scholars Retreat House. Across the street, on the northeast corner of Granary St. is the Poet's House. It was built in 1815. The frame house closest to the front in the center is no longer standing. If you zoom in, you can see a building with a rounded door just beyond it--this was the Methodist church. The tall building on the right side of the photograph is the Harmonist Granary at 413 Granary St.""The Granary is an outstanding example of Harmonist architecture and is individually documented in the Historic American Building Survey. This structure was originally built by the Harmonie Society in 1818. In 1827, after the end of the Owen/Maclure experiment, the Granary became Williams Maclure�s property. In 1843, David Dale Owen gained possession of the building and converted the space for use as a geological laboratory. [David Dale Owen died in 1860, and after his death this building saw use as a woolen mill (see evidence under the eaves), burned in 1878, rebuilt as a granary in 1893, and finally remodeled into a wheat granary in 1905.] In 1948, Owen descendant Kenneth Dale Owen purchased the building. The structure underwent extensive restoration and reconstruction from 1997-1999, and is currently owned by the Rapp Granary-Owen Foundation." (http://visitnewharmony.com/playexplore_cpt/granary/).

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