The Harmony Museum displays furniture and artifacts from Harmonist history and, as an artifact itself, embodies that history. Built as a warehouse and granary, much of the building remains as the Harmonists left it, including the recessed Virgin Sophia (symbol of chaste and holy wisdom) doorway attributed to Frederick Reichert Rapp. The original windows had stone surrounds, which are gone, but
Lu Donnelly et al., "Harmony Museum", [Harmony, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-BU22.
Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 184-185.
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