Ten distinct congregations, ten distinct missions, and ten distinct archives now share a single home at HARC. Bringing them together wasn’t about blending their histories into one story — it was about giving each of them a place where their records could be properly cared for.

Visiting researchers often start out looking into one congregation and leave having learned just as much about the others, simply because the collections sit close enough together to invite comparison. That’s one of the quieter benefits of a shared archive: connections nobody planned for, made possible just by proximity.