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New Harmony's Atheneum

New Harmony's Atheneum is the visitor center for New Harmony, Indiana. It is named for the Greek Athenaion, a temple dedicated to Athena in ancient Greece. Funded by the Indianapolis Lilly Endowment in 1976, with the help of the Krannert Charitable Trust, it opened on October 10, 1979.

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1979

New Harmony, New Harmony, United States

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Richard Meier

Born 1934 · New York, New York, United States

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Richard Meier is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. A winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984, Meier has designed several iconic buildings including the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the High Museu…

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