@article{Quist2023,
       author = "Quist, Ned",
       title =  {{Holes in the Fabric of a Shaker Village: Three Lost Buildings of the Harvard Shaker Society}},
       howpublished = "\url{https://ir.hamilton.edu/do/a3b2a0ab-6559-494f-8d84-780d8cf800e9}",
       publisher = {Richard W. Couper Press and Hamilton College Library Special Collections},
       journal = {American Communal Societies Quarterly},
       year = 2023,
       month = apr,
       volumen = {17},
       number = {2},
       pages = {67--94},
}

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Date

April 2023

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2026-04-01

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In the Harvard Shaker village today, there are eleven surviving buildings built by or used by the Shakers, one in the North Family, three in the South Family and seven in the Church Family. Between 1791 and 1918, the Shakers had at least seventy structures. So if eleven still stand, what happened to the other fifty-nine buildings? Three of these buildings are the subject of this article. The three buildings addressed include one of the earliest buildings, the First House, built in 1792, and two of the last buildings built by the Shakers: the South Family’s Brick Shop of 1854 and the North Family’s dwelling, often referred to as the "Rural Home” of 1853. All three of these buildings still stood when the Shakers sold their property in 1918.

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Source Title

American Communal Societies Quarterly

ISSN

1939-473X

Volume

17

Issue

2

First Page

67

Last Page

94

Publisher

Richard W. Couper Press

Hamilton College Library Special Collections

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