Fruitlands Museum

Fruitlands Museum

Fruitlands Museum is in Harvard, Massachusetts on the site of the failed Fruitlands utopian community. In addition to the community building, it includes a transplanted Shaker house, Native American artifacts and Hudson River School paintings. [ [http://www.massvacation.com/find/detail.php?org_id=1038 Massachusetts Office of Travel and tourism - Find Lodging - Fruitlands Museum] , retrieved 1 October 2008] The museum is primarily the result of the efforts of preservationist Clara Endicott Sears. [ [http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/pwwmh/ma45.htm National Park Service - Fruitlands Museum Historic District] , retrieved 1 October 2008]

References

External links

* [http://www.fruitlands.org/ Museum Home Page]
* [http://www.cr.nps.gov/nR/travel/pwwmh/ma45.htm National Park Service pages on the Fruitlands Historical District]


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