{"nrhp_refnum":"02000228","name":"Harbaugh's Reformed Church","other_names":["Harbaugh United Church of Christ"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"14301 and 14269 Harbaugh Church Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Washington","county":"Franklin County","state":"PA","lat":39.72134537100004,"lon":-77.53351169199993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-03-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick High Victorian Gothic church building on a limestone foundation on the north side of Harbaugh Church Road near Washington Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, with an adjoining cemetery. It was rebuilt in 1892 on the site of an 1846 German Reformed church.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the 1892 church is an unusual local example of High Victorian Gothic design on a rural church, far more elaborate than the plain brick rural churches typical of the region. Its stained glass lancet windows, brick buttresses, and slate roof are described as largely intact, and its interior retains original fittings such as painted iron columns, pews, and a kerosene chandelier.","narrative":"Brick church in the High Victorian Gothic style on Harbaugh Church Road, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, completed in 1892 by a German Reformed congregation that had worshipped on the site since 1846. The building has a steeply pitched roof with decorative square and scalloped slate shingles, brick buttresses, and lancet stained glass windows with tracery. The interior has a plastered arched ceiling, stained walnut rafters, painted cast iron chancel columns, and an original kerosene chandelier. The architect is not identified in the historic record, though local craftsmen including a Waynesboro woodworker did the finer interior work. The church is regarded as an unusual example of elaborate architecture on a rural site, since most country churches in the region were plain. Its adjoining cemetery, established around 1845, contains veterans' graves from the Civil War through the Korean War and an iron fence cast in Chambersburg. The congregation ended worship in 1966, and the building has since been used for community gatherings.","period_of_significance":"1892","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"High Victorian Gothic","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The building no longer serves as a religious building; it was purchased by the Waynesboro Historical Society in 1983 and is used for meetings, social gatherings, and occasional weddings and funerals.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.151804-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/02000228.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000228/b38bb20ab6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000228/b38bb20ab6-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harbaugh_Church_Franklin_Co_PA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harbaugh_Church_Franklin_Co_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998548","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbaugh%27s_Reformed_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5654343"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/franklin-county/harbaughs-reformed-church-02000228/"}