Ephrata Cloister represents a good example of Germanic log and half-timber construction from 1732. The largest log structure has five floor levels, including one below grade and three imbedded in ...

The Ephrata Cloister Museum is also home to a glass trumpet unearthed from an 18th-century trash pit, which ties into the ...

Closed Cloister In 1725 a pious German named Johann Conrad Beissel emigrated to Pennsylvania, gathered about him a small sect called Seventh Day Baptists. At Ephrata, near Lancaster, Pa., ...