- Mount Lebanon Shaker Society
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Mount Lebanon Shaker Society
Main dwelling circa July 2008
Location: New Lebanon, New York Coordinates: 42°27′9.18″N 73°22′50.37″W / 42.45255°N 73.3806583°WCoordinates: 42°27′9.18″N 73°22′50.37″W / 42.45255°N 73.3806583°W Built: 1785 Governing body: Private NRHP Reference#: 66000511 Significant dates Added to NRHP: October 15, 1966[1] Designated NHL: June 23, 1965[2] Mount Lebanon Shaker Society, also known as New Lebanon Shaker Society, was a communal settlement of Shakers in New Lebanon, New York. The early Shaker Ministry, including Joseph Meacham and Lucy Wright, the architects of Shakers' gender-balanced government, lived there.[3]
Isaac N. Youngs, the society's scribe, chronicled the life of that Shaker village for almost half a century. Youngs also designed the schoolhouse built there in 1839.[4]
In the 1940s, due to declining membership, the Shakers sold the site to Darrow School.
Buildings
Mount Lebanon's main building became a National Historic Landmark in 1965.[2],[5]
Although the first of the Shaker settlements in the U.S. was in the Watervliet Shaker Historic District, Mount Lebanon became the leading Shaker society, and was the first to have a building used exclusively for religious purposes. Benson Lossing documented that meetinghouse and a few other buildings when he visited the Shakers in 1856.[6]
Mount Lebanon is located where Shaker Rd. merges with Darrow Rd. off US 20 in New Lebanon, New York. The North Family buildings are preserved as a museum.
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Main dwelling circa 1930
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Shaker Meetinghouse on site
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State historical marker in front of Meetinghouse
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Oblique view of Meetinghouse
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Side view of main dwelling
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ a b "Mount Lebanon Shaker Society". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. 2007-09-15. http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=367&ResourceType=District.
- ^ Stephen J. Stein, The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers (New Haven: Yale, 1992).
- ^ Glendyne R. Wergland, One Shaker Life: Isaac Newton Youngs, 1793-1865 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006).
- ^ Richard Greenwood (December 10, 1975). National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Mount Lebanon Shaker SocietyPDF (504 KB). National Park Service and Accompanying photos, from 1975 and 1967.PDF (4.21 MB)
- ^ [Benson J. Lossing], “The Shakers,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 15, no. 86 (July 1857).
External links
- Mount Lebanon Shaker Society website on Shaker Historic Trail, National Park Service.
- Photos at Historic American Buildings Survey:
- Carpenter's shop (1 photo),
- Cemetery (1 photo),
- Decorative arts (4 photos),
- Farm Deacon's Shop (1 photo),
- Meetinghouse (second) (17 photos),
- General views (2 photos),
- Seed House (2 photos),
- Southwest Work House (1 photo),
- Boys' Dormitory (1 photo),
- Tannery (2 photos),
- Old Post Office (1 photo),
- Barn (1 photo),
- Loom room (1 photo),
- Ice House (2 photos),
- Second Family Brethren's Workshop (2 photos),
- Trustees' Office (3 photos),
- Chair Factory (3 photos),
- Reservoir (1 photo),
- South Family Nurse Shop (3 photos),
- Centre Family general view (1 photo),
- Second Family Herb House (1 photo),
- Upper Canaan Family Shop Buildings (1 photo),
- Apple Drying Kiln (1 photo),
- Nurse shop (4 photos),
- South Family Dwelling House (3 photos),
- Herb House (1 photo),
- Wash house (3 photos),
- Smithy (3 photos),
- North Family Granary (2 photos),
- Centre Family Dwelling House, Second (3 photos),
- Second Family (general views) (2 photos),
- North Family Office and Store (2 photos),
- Schoolhouse (5 photos),
to be continued. That was 40 of 60 available when search Shaker Lebanon at HABS.a
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