Interior Hancock Shaker Village

Hancock ma established 1791.

Interior hancock shaker village. Living spaces inspired home. The hancock shaker school district was formally established on march 2nd 1820. Hancock shaker village 050. This doesn t even begin to cover it.

This year marks the 60 th anniversary of hancock shaker village as a museum. Interior hancock shaker village school room. Photo by robert sandberg. It was the third of nineteen major shaker villages established between 1774 and 1836 in new york new england kentucky ohio and indiana.

Divided into six family groups along north south and east west axes hancock was a typical shaker community with communal dwellings craft shops a meetinghouse and barns. Products shaker mercantile at hancock shaker village. Hancock shaker village 050. This window is in the kitchen of the church family dwelling at hancock shaker village pittsfield ma.

I have wanted to visit the famous hancock shaker village in pittsfield massachusetts for decades but never gotten around to it until a recent field trip to the berkshires the moment i entered the grounds in a playful taj mahal moment the iconic round barn the center of a thriving dairy industry perfectly poised as if it were a sacred building. Museum admission is not required to shop at shaker mercantile and dine in seeds market cafe. Established in 1783 hancock village thrived as an active shaker community during most of the following two centuries. Marybootrixie has uploaded 19316 photos to flickr.

Though the early shakers rejected formal schooling by the early nineteenth century the northeastern shaker communities had organized schools. Hancock shaker village is a former shaker commune in hancock and pittsfield massachusetts it emerged in the towns of hancock pittsfield and richmond in the 1780s organized in 1790 and was active until 1960. It served as a school for children. Explore marybootrixie s photos on flickr.