Sarah Campbell Blaffer Pottery Studio

  The original Sarah Campbell Blaffer Pottery Studio was designed by architect Richard Meier and dedicated in 1978. Jane Blaffer Owen commissioned it in honor of her mother. The dedication plaque at the studio reads, “As Sarah Campbell Blaffer believed that creative crafts deserve the instruction, support and honor accorded the fine arts, this studio […]

Owen Community House

  This circa 1840 structure is home to the Jane Blaffer Owen Creative-in-Residence Fellowship pilot program. The large front room serves as a gathering place for receptions, lectures, art shows, music jams and small concerts for the New Harmony Community and visiting Creatives. The building was updated in 2013 by Kenneth A. Schuette Jr.

Descent of the Holy Spirit

  Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz’s Descent of the Holy Spirit (Notre Dame de Liesse), is one of two castings made from an original bronze sculpture located in the Roman Catholic Church d’Assy, Haute Savoie, France. In 1960, Jane Blaffer Owen bought this cast for the Roofless Church. About the sculpture, Church of Scotland minister, former Warden […]

Roofless Church

  In 1957 Jane Owen engaged architect Philip Johnson to design a non-denominational place of worship in New Harmony, Indiana. Since all religions hold heaven in common, this special place is called the Roofless Church. It is situated on the north edge of New Harmony overlooking the flood plain of the Wabash River. It respects […]

Chapel of the Little Portion

  The chapel designed by Stephen de Staebler in 1989, is located on the north side of Swan Lake, behind the New Harmony Inn. The brothers of Mount Saint Francis constructed the chapel with stucco and wood. Franciscan friar from Louisville, Kentucky, Reverend David Lenz explains why the chapel was symbolic for the Franciscans to […]

Our Lady Queen of Peace Shrine

  Located northeast of the Roofless Church at the end of Main Street, this stone carving of Our Lady and the Christ Child is from Isle St. Louis, France, and is the work of an unknown 15th-century sculptor. This is New Harmony’s oldest work of art. It was dedicated to the memory of the Trappist […]