Gallery 713 - Meetinghouse Gallery

Part of The American Wing

Gallery Highlights

  • Turned Armchair
    Turned Armchair

    Date: 1640–80
    Accession Number: 51.12.2

  • Easy Chair
    Easy Chair

    Date: 1715–30
    Accession Number: 50.228.1

  • Cabinet
    Cabinet

    Date: 1679
    Accession Number: 10.125.168

  • Table
    Table

    Date: 1700–1730
    Accession Number: 52.195.4

  • Desk
    Desk

    Date: 1700–1730
    Accession Number: 10.125.75

  • High chest of drawers
    High chest of drawers

    Date: 1710–30
    Accession Number: 40.37.3

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The New England meetinghouse provided a place for religious, social, and civic gatherings. The heavy timber-framed ceiling of this gallery is a 1924 reproduction of the ceiling in the 1681 meetinghouse in Hingham, Massachusetts—the last surviving example of the once-numerous seventeenth-century meetinghouses. The high, open-timbered space is based on the halls of English manor houses built in the Gothic tradition and serves to recall the late medieval heritage of the first American colonists. The large windows at the gable ends of the gallery, intended to provide adequate natural light, follow the precedent of such English halls.
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