Three buildings on site, including St. John's Episcopal Church, built in 1888, the Church has its original stained-glass windows and is on the National Registry of Historic Places (NRHP). A hotbed for socialism during the mining era, Girard was the home to Julius Wayland and E. Haldeman-Julius's Appeal to Reason, then the largest socialist periodical in the country. Haldeman-Julius also created the Little Blue Books, small paperback books that made literature available to the masses at a cheap price—a venture that landed him on the FBI's "enemies list." Learn more about this fascinating history at this unique museum.