The Conrad Shindler House
In September 1995, actress Mary Tyler Moore donated the Conrad Shindler House to the Center. This house, erected around 1795, was owned by Moore's great-great-great-grandfather during the first half of the nineteenth century. During the Battle of Antietam in September 1862, the Shindler House, like most of the other buildings in Shepherdstown, received wounded Confederate soldiers. All operations of the Center relocated to the Shindler House in April 1996. In honor of Moore's father, the Center was renamed The George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War.
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Conrad Shindler House today
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Historic Flemish Bond and Water Table at the Shindler House (ca. 1795)
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Conrad Shindler (ca. 1840)
Read more about this topic: George Tyler Moore Center For The Study Of The Civil War
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