{"id":7060,"date":"2015-02-28T10:36:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T15:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=7060"},"modified":"2015-02-28T10:36:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T15:36:23","slug":"fruitlands-farmhouse-1825","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=7060","title":{"rendered":"Fruitlands Farmhouse (1825)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For seven months in 1843<\/a>-1844, a farmhouse<\/a> in the Town of Harvard served as the home of the Utopian agrarian commune called Fruitlands<\/a>. Founded by Bronson Alcott<\/a> and Charles Lane<\/a> and based on Transcendentalist principles<\/a>, the experiment<\/a> was not a success, failing<\/a> due to the participants<\/a>‘ inability to grow sufficient food. Alcott soon<\/a> moved his family<\/a>, including his daughter, the future author Louisa May Alcott, back to Concord<\/a>, where he later purchased Orchard House<\/a> to be the family home.<\/p>\n

After the commune broke up, its land was bought by one of its former members, Joseph Palmer<\/a>, who for 20 years used it as a refuge for reformers<\/a> called Freelands<\/a>. Clara Endicott Sears<\/a> bought the property in 1910 and opened it as a museum<\/a> in 1914. It is today part of the Fruitlands Museum<\/a>. The farmhouse is described in its National Register of Historic Places nomination<\/a> as typical of the late eighteenth-century. The Historic American Buildings Survey documentation<\/a> describes it as an early 18th century farmhouse. The Fruitlands Museum website describes it<\/a> as having been built in 1825.<\/p>\n

Here are more images of the house: <\/p>\n

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For seven months in 1843-1844, a farmhouse in the Town of Harvard served as the home of the Utopian agrarian commune called Fruitlands. Founded by Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane and based on Transcendentalist principles, the experiment was not a success, failing due to the participants‘ inability to grow sufficient food. Alcott soon moved his family, including his daughter, the future author Louisa May Alcott, back to Concord, where he later purchased Orchard House to be the family home. After the commune broke up, its land was bought by one of its former members, Joseph Palmer, who for 20 years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,8,122],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-7060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harvard","category-houses","category-vernacular","tag-alcott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7060","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=7060"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7070,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7060\/revisions\/7070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}