New Harmony, town, Posey County, southwestern Indiana, is located on the Wabash River; incorporated 1850. It is a commercial center situated in a productive farm region. The community was established in 1814 as Harmonie by members of the Harmony Society under the leadership of the German-born religious leader George Rapp. In 1825 the Harmonists sold their holdings to the British social reformer Robert Owen and returned to Pennsylvania. Owen and his followers renamed the settlement New Harmony and founded a community based on Owen's theories of cooperative living. As a result of internal dissension, however, the colony was dissolved as a distinct entity in 1828. Historic New Harmony contains a group of restored buildings, including structures from the Harmonist and Owen periods and the headquarters of a forerunner of the U.S. Geological Survey. New Harmony is also the site of the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art and the Roofless Church, designed by the American architect Philip C. Johnson, with an entranceway executed by the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz.