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Hancock Shaker Round Barn
The Hancock Shakers were organized between 1780 and 1790. The Round Stone Barn was built 1826, and was described thirty years later as a "grand architectural curiosity...visited as a curiosity by thousands of people" (Holland 1855).
Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division. Library of Congress item. Full drawing: Elevation at loc.gov. No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted.