20. Conrad Shindler House or Reformed Parsonage

SE corner of German and Church Sts. Likely the second house on lot 17, the original front portion was built by Michael Fouke, Sr., about 1795, and sold by the Fouke family in 1815 to Conrad Shindler, who added the rear wing around 1815.  For nearly 55 years, this property served as both family home and the location for Shindler’s  coppersmithing business.  In 1869, 17 years after Shindler’s death, the German Reformed Church bought the home from the Shindler heirs to use as a parsonage.  In 1995, actress Mary Tyler Moore, a Shindler descendent, purchased the property and deeded it to the Shepherd College Foundation in honor of her father.  It now houses Shepherd University’s George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War.