The New Lebanon Shaker Village is not nearly as well known as its neighbor to the east in Shaker Village, MA. But it's better off that way, retaining more of its 19th-century charm with quaint buildings and open farms. And a uniquely Shaker street named Chair Factory Road. And the ruins of a giant barn. If you couldn't tell, this is the non-barn page.


Some of the buildings and associated scenery on display coming down (westward) from the top of Darrow Road's dead-end. In the 19th century and into the 20th, Darrow Rd. eastward into what is now US 20 was the original trail over Mt. Lebanon that connected the two Shaker villages and continued to Pittsfield.


Detail of the front of the building in the last photograph.


The round-topped building appears to be the signature structure on this site - it's the one pictured in their logo (if you look from the side instead of from the street). The pond would be a lot quainter with the wooden-shingled buildings on either side if there weren't a Mercury in front of it.


The remnants of stone property walls, across from the Great Stone Barn on Darrow Rd.

Page 2 - the Great Stone Barn

Mt. Lebanon Shaker Village website
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