Tyringham Shaker Settlement Historic District information

Tyringham Shaker Settlement Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
1968 photo by Jack E. Boucher
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Location	Tyringham, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°14′46″N 73°13′30″W / 42.24611°N 73.22500°W / 42.24611; -73.22500
Built	1792
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Italianate, Federal
NRHP reference No.	87001785[1]
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1987

Shakers

Topics
Chronology of Shakers Era of Manifestations Shaker communities Shaker families Shaker furniture Shaker inventions "Simple Gifts" Works based on "Simple Gifts" Anti-Shaker
Notable people
Founders Jane and James Wardley Ann Lee William Lee James Whittaker Joseph Meacham Lucy Wright Other members Shaker members
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The Tyringham Shaker Settlement Historic District was a historic Shaker village on Jerusalem Road in Tyringham, Massachusetts. Among the buildings in the village were mills and workshops. There was a reduction in members prior to the American Civil War and in the 1870s the remaining "believers" moved to Hancock Shaker Village in Massachusetts and Enfield Shakers Village in Connecticut.

In 1874 the Shakers traded the property to a New York City doctor, Joseph Jones, for property in Pennsylvania. Dr. Jones open a summer retreat and boardinghouse called "Fernside". In 1889 the property was sold to the Tyringham Forest Club. It is now farmland.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.