| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1843/06/00 | Amos Bronson Alcott | Founder | Amos Alcott and Charles Lane establish a utopian transcendentalist socialist farm, Fruitlands, on Prospect Hill. It closed January 1844. | |||
| 1910/00/00 | Clara Endicott Sears | Home | Clara Sears buys a summer estate in Harvard, Massachusetts, which includes the farmhouse that was part of a failed Transcendentalist community known as the Fruitlands or consociate family. | |||
| 1914/00/00 | Clara Endicott Sears | Benefactor | Clara Endicott Sears restores Fruitlands and opens it as a museum. | |||
| 1915/00/00 | Clara Endicott Sears | Author | Clara Endicott Sears' "Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands" is published by Houghton Mifflin. | |||
| 1922/00/00 | Clara Endicott Sears | Benefactor | Bought by Clara Sears, the first building built by the Harvard Shakers, a 1794 office building from the Harvard Shaker Village opens at Fruitlands. | |||
| 1929/08/28 | Mary Crowninshield Peabody Sears | Died | Mary Crowninshield Peabody Sears dies at the age of 93 in Harvard, Massachusetts. |
| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
| Fruitlands |
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| Particulars for Fruitlands Museums: | |
|---|---|
| Historic Use | Agricultural fields |
| Area of Significance | Architecture |
| Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
| Area of Significance | Art |
| Area of Significance | Community Planning and Development |
| Architectural Style | Craftsman Bungalow |
| Area of Significance | Education |
| Criteria | Exemplar |
| Sight Category | Historic District |
| Area of Significance | Landscape Architecture |
| Criteria | Person |
| Cultural Affiliation | Shaker |
| Architectural Style | Shingle Style Architecture |
| Historic Use | Single dwelling |
| Area of Significance | Social History |
| Social Attribute | Utopia |
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