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A museum at the historic site of the North Family of the New Lebanon Shakers. The Shaker society based in New Lebanon served as the headquarters for all Shakers in the entire country, which included some 19 major communities from stretching from Indiana to Kentucky to Maine. Residents of New Lebanon and Caanan, New York, and Hancock, Massachusetts, converted to the Shaker faith in 1780, and in 1787 the new leader of the Shakers, Joseph Meacham, organized a headquarters in New Lebanon. He appointed Lucy Wright, from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to co-equally share in the leadership responsibilities. The Shaker society at New Lebanon persisted until 1947, when the Shakers dissolved the settlement. The historic site was labeled a National Historic Landmark in 1965, and in 2004 and 2006 was listed by the World Monuments Fund as one of the 100 most endangered historic sites in the world. The museum today includes 10 original buildings, the most notable of which is the famous 1859 Great Stone Barn, which was heavily damaged in a fire in 1972 and is now undergoing a long-term restoration. The museum also hosts the most comprehensive Shaker collection in existence, having absorbed the collection of the former Shaker Museum in nearby Old Chatham. See other Shaker villages in the northeast United States, including the neighboring Hancock Shaker Village, through the itinerary Touring Shaker country.
Mount Lebanon Shaker Society, also known as New Lebanon Shaker Society, was a communal settlement of spiritual Shakers in New Lebanon, New York, United States. The earliest converts began to "gather in" at that location in 1782 and built their first meetinghouse in 1785. The early Shaker Ministry, including Joseph Meacham and Lucy Wright, the architects of Shakers' gender-balanced government, lived there.
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Many of the historic buildings of the Mount Lebanon Shaker community now belong to Darrow School, including the iconic 1824 Meeting House. Tours can be arranged through phone call.
A Universal Sufi community founded in 1975 by Vilayat Inayat Khan. Most of the buildings on the property were built by the New Lebanon Shakers, and tours can be arranged. Spiritual retreats of various lengths can be scheduled, and spaces for conferences are offered.
Built in 1913, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
A historic Episcopalian church built between 1872 and 1881. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
A non-profit local live theatre.
Cemetery grounds which includes a funerary monument to Gov. Samuel J. Tilden, a New York governor and US Presidential candidate in the 1876 election. The monument is on the National Register of Historic Places.