Similar
Related
Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community Meetinghouse, West of State Route 26, South of North Raymond Road, northwest edge of church family area, Sabbathday Lake Village, Cumberland County, ME
Summary
Significance: An excellent example of this building type and of fine framing and carpentry, representing a vernacular survival of exposed framing and simple trim. Unusually effective in its design and detail, the Meetinghouse illustrates, at an early date, that spare neatness and precision which was to become typical of the Shaker tradition.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-48
Survey number: HABS ME-107
Building/structure dates: 1794 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Johnson, Moses
Shakers
Peterich, Gerda
Pearson, Elmer E
Miller/Swift
Green, Samuel M
Reeves, F Blair
Peacock, Thomas E
Braun, Wolfgang G
DeSilets, Robert L
Location
cumberland county, 43.81330, -70.38706
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
