Harbaugh's Reformed Church

The story

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Harbaugh's Reformed Church is a High Victorian Gothic church at 14301 and 14269 Harbaugh Church Rd. in Washington, Franklin County, built in 1892. It was listed in the National Register in 2002.

Why it's listed

It was listed under Criterion C, with local-level significance in architecture, and meets Criteria Consideration A; its period of significance is 1892, the year the church was built.

Physical character

The church has brick walls on a limestone foundation and a slate roof, with wood trim, stained glass lancet windows, and brick buttresses. A marble cornerstone, a gable-front vestibule, and a stepped-top chimney mark the exterior, while carved walnut ceiling medallions and cast iron columns finish the interior. The slate roof was replaced in 1984, and in 1933 a hymn was painted above the altar.

Historical context

The congregation organized as Harbaugh's German Reformed Church in 1846, and its original church was razed in 1892 when the present building went up. The building's religious use ran from 1892 to 1966, when the congregation combined with St. Paul's United Church of Christ. The Waynesboro Historical Society bought the building in 1983, and at the time of listing it served as a meeting hall with the cemetery still in use.