| This photograph was taken from the area of Loudoun Heights, across the River from Harpers Ferry. St. Peter's Church, with its central white steeple, stands in the center of this image, with the Rectory to the left. A privy, built around the same time as the Rectory, is barely visible in the enclosed yard to the left of that building. A timber frame bell tower stood just north of the Rectory from approximately 1880 until a year or two after completion of extensive Church renovations in 1896. This bell tower can be seen rising behind the Rectory's roof line in the photograph above. A cupola, which once stood on the center line of the Rectory roof, had been removed by the time of this photo. St. Johns Episcopal Church, which was heavily damaged in the Civil War and rebuilt in 1882 (Null 1983), stands just uphill from St. Peter's in the photo above. St. John's was sold in 1895, due to declining membership, and the walls of the structure today stand in ruins (Gilbert 1995: 62). The Armory Market building, with its arcaded base, is located at the bottom center of this photo, and the Harpers Ferry Paper Company building is at the upper right. Hilltop House hotel, started in 1888, is at the top of the photo. Source: This image was likely taken in 1895, and was definitely made sometime before 1896, when St. Peter's Church was renovated, and after 1892, when alterations were made to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks visible on the right (Snell 1959a: 116-17; Harpers Ferry Nat'l Hist'l Park Archive, Photograph No. HF-0099).
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