{"id":6181,"date":"2013-06-21T04:03:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T08:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=6181"},"modified":"2013-08-21T23:20:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T03:20:34","slug":"tannery-hancock-shaker-village-1835","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=6181","title":{"rendered":"Tannery, Hancock Shaker Village (1835)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Tannery.jpg\" alt=\"Tannery\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Tannery.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Tannery-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>An earlier building that had served the Hancock Shaker Village as a Cider House was enlarged in 1835 (the foundation wall has a stone inscribed with the date 1835) for use as <a href=\"http:\/\/hancockshakervillage.org\/museum\/historic-architecture\/tannery\/\">a Tannery<\/a>. By 1875, the Shakers were unable to compete with other large <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tanning\">tanneries<\/a> in the area. <a href=\"http:\/\/hancockshakervillage.org\/?map-location=tannery&#038;cm-ajax=1\">The building<\/a> was then converted into a cider press and a forge was installed in the north end. The upper floor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mtbradley\/8462425917\/\">the structure<\/a> was later used as a carpenters shop. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>The woodworking shop on the upper level:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/002.jpg\" alt=\"Woodworking Shop\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/002.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/002-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/0011.jpg\" alt=\"Woodworking shop\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/0011.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/0011-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>The forge on the lower level:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/003.jpg\" alt=\"Forge\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/003.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/003-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earlier building that had served the Hancock Shaker Village as a Cider House was enlarged in 1835 (the foundation wall has a stone inscribed with the date 1835) for use as a Tannery. By 1875, the Shakers were unable to compete with other large tanneries in the area. The building was then converted into a cider press and a forge was installed in the north end. The upper floor of the structure was later used as a carpenters shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,146,153,122],"tags":[112,198],"class_list":["post-6181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hancock","category-industrial","category-outbuildings","category-vernacular","tag-museums","tag-shakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6181"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6345,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181\/revisions\/6345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}