Cloister Country Store, Ephrata. Adjoining historic Ephrata Cloister. Having fun at t Cloister country Store - this Illinois family finds a family shot in the Gruber farm wagon a lasting memento of their Pennsylvania Cutch Country vacation. Patterned after a Pennsylvania Dutch barn, this early American Country Store feateures native handcrafted products. Pennsylvania Dutch food, hex signs, coins, stamps and antiques.
" 'Fairview' - Would like to have you and your sister come out early Thursday Eve to paly croquet. Miss P. and her brother are coming so be sure not to disappoint us. Add this to your collection. Katherine G. G."
Brother House "Cloister", Ephrata, PA. Bookplate stuck to back of card: The Memorial Library of the Historical Society of the Reformed Church in the United States. Presented by Rev. Jacob Rothrock March 8, 1923.
Cloister buildings - the Brother House. Ephrata is a secluded little place about 15 miles from Lancaster, most noted in the tourist's eye because of the group of buildings of the German Seventh-Day Baptists or Dunkers, dating from about 1732. These structures are great steep-roofed houses, several stories in height and dotted with many small windows. The former Brother House is a rambling building, no longer used for its original purpose.
Cloister buildings - Saal and Sister Houses. The Sisters' Kloster or Cloister, is a large whitewashed building. Fronting toward the northeast, and adjoining the Saal or Chapel. It contains many curious relics in pictures, furniture, and household utensisl. Nearly 300 American soldiers were nursed here after the battle of Brandywine.
Ephrata Cloister - Founded in 1732 by Conrad Beissel and a group of German Pietists, who established a Protestant Monestary known as the German Seventh Day Baptist. Buildings shown are the Saron (Sisters' House) and the Saal (Place of Worship). Restoration by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comm.
Ephrata Cloister - This Protestant monastic community of the German Seventh Day Baptists was founded by Conrad Beissel in 1732. View of the Stone Almonry (granary and bakehouse for charity) in foreground, Sall (Chapel) in cneter, and Saron (Sisters' House) on right, were erected between 1735 and 1749.
