{"id":6366,"date":"2013-09-03T01:49:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T05:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=6366"},"modified":"2013-09-03T01:49:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T05:49:18","slug":"harvard-shaker-meetinghouse-1791","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=6366","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Shaker Meetinghouse (1791)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Shaker-Meetinghouse.jpg\" alt=\"Harvard Shaker Meetinghouse\" width=\"500\" height=\"358\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Shaker-Meetinghouse.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Shaker-Meetinghouse-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mhc-macris.net\/Details.aspx?MhcId=HRV.98\">The Meetinghouse<\/a> at the former <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harvard_Shaker_Village_Historic_District\">Harvard Shaker Village<\/a>, which existed from 1791 to 1917, is one of ten built by the Enfield Shaker <a href=\"http:\/\/cumberlandvistas.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/moses-johnson-master-builder.html\">Moses Johnson<\/a> (for instance, he also built the <a href=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=5983\">Shirley Shaker Meeting House<\/a>, now located at <a href=\"http:\/\/hancockshakervillage.org\/\">Hancock Shaker Village<\/a>). The frame of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/ma0567\/\">the Meetinghouse<\/a> was raised on June 8, 1791 and the first Sabbath meeting was held inside on January 22, 1792. The Shakers moved the building southwards to its present site (82 Shaker Road) in 1857. At that time, they enlarged the original gambrel roof to a gable roof and added a stairway ell on each end of the building. <a href=\"http:\/\/rainfordrestorations.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/29\/harvard-shaker-meeting-house-new-slate-roof\/\">The building<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/07\/18\/travel\/havens-that-s-no-museum-that-s-my-home.html?pagewanted=all&#038;src=pm\">now a private residence<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Meetinghouse at the former Harvard Shaker Village, which existed from 1791 to 1917, is one of ten built by the Enfield Shaker Moses Johnson (for instance, he also built the Shirley Shaker Meeting House, now located at Hancock Shaker Village). The frame of the Meetinghouse was raised on June 8, 1791 and the first Sabbath meeting was held inside on January 22, 1792. The Shakers moved the building southwards to its present site (82 Shaker Road) in 1857. At that time, they enlarged the original gambrel roof to a gable roof and added a stairway ell on each end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,9,45],"tags":[198],"class_list":["post-6366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-churches","category-colonial","category-harvard","tag-shakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366","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=6366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6371,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366\/revisions\/6371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}