Enfield Shaker Museum

Museum In The Former Enfield Shaker Village On Mascoma Lake, Whose Great Stone Dwelling, Finished Around 1841 (Confirm), Is Described As The Largest Dwelling The Shakers Ever Built; With Gardens, Trails To The Shaker Feast Ground And Overnight Rooms In The Historic Buildings (Confirm). · Enfield, New Hampshire

The remains of a Shaker village on the western shore of Mascoma Lake in Enfield, in the upper Connecticut River valley of New Hampshire, where members of the celibate Shaker faith lived and farmed communally from the late 18th century until the early 20th (confirm dates). Its centerpiece is the Great Stone Dwelling, a six-storey granite building finished around 1841 (confirm) and often described as the largest dwelling the Shakers ever built. After the Shakers left, a Catholic missionary order used the village as a seminary for decades before the museum was formed in the 1980s (confirm). Today visitors walk through the stone dwelling's long halls, built-in cupboards and meeting room, see exhibits on Shaker life, crafts and inventions, wander herb and flower gardens and follow a trail up the hill to the old Feast Ground. The museum also offers rooms for overnight stays and Shaker-style dinners on some dates (confirm). It is smaller and quieter than its larger sister site, Canterbury Shaker Village, near Concord.

447 NH Route 4A, Enfield, New Hampshire, 03748, United States

The museum is open all year but on a seasonal pattern. From roughly late spring to late October it opens most days, often Monday to Saturday from mid-morning to late afternoon and Sunday from around midday (confirm). From November to spring hours are shorter, with fewer open days and some weeks closed around the winter holidays (confirm). The gardens are at their best from June to September. The Feast Ground trail can be walked in daylight when the museum is open. Dinners, workshops and special events are held on set dates only, and overnight rooms, where offered, need advance booking (confirm). The museum closes on major holidays and in severe weather.

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