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Fruitlands Museums

  • NRHP Name: Fruitlands Museums Historic District
  • Address: 102 Prospect Hill Rd
  • Vicinity: N of Still River Rd
  • Hours: MAIN SEASON - April 15 - November 8, 2015 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 10AM - 4PM (April 15-June 19, guided tours during the week, on the hour10:30AM-3:15PM) Tuesday: Closed Saturday, Sunday, Holidays: 10AM - 5PM (Self-guided tours)
  • Phone: (978) 456-3924
  • Travel Genus: Sight , Visit
  • Sight Category: Museums
  • Available for private functions


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Timeline

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.

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Particulars for Fruitlands Museums:
Historic Use Agricultural fields
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Art
Architectural Style Bungalow-craftsman
Area of Significance Community Planning and Development
Area of Significance Education
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Historic Event
Area of Significance Landscape Architecture
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Cultural Affiliation Shaker
Architectural Style Shingle Style Architecture
Historic Use Single dwelling
Area of Significance Social History
Social Attribute Utopia



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 97000439
Resource Type:
Owner: Private
Architectural Style: Shingle style, Bungalow-craftsman
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Architecture, Art, Social history, Community Planning and Development, Education, Landscape architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Person, Architecture-Engineering
Significant Year: 1910, 1914, 1916
Associated People: Sears, Clara Endicott
Historic Function: Domestic, Agriculture, subsistence
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling, Agricultural fields
Current Function: Recreation and Culture, Domestic, Agriculture, subsistence
Current Sub-Function: Single dwelling Museum Agricultural fields

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