Gallery 734 - Shaker Retiring Room, ca. 1830–40

Part of The American Wing

Gallery Highlights

  • Oval Box
    Oval Box

    Date: 1800–1900
    Accession Number: 66.10.36a, b

  • Revolving Chair
    Revolving Chair

    Date: 1840–70
    Accession Number: 66.10.26

  • Rocking Chair
    Rocking Chair

    Date: 1820–50
    Accession Number: 66.10.23

  • Candle Stand
    Candle Stand

    Date: 1800–1840
    Accession Number: 66.10.21

  • Stand
    Stand

    Date: 1825–50
    Accession Number: 66.10.16

  • Blanket Chest
    Blanket Chest

    Date: 1835–75
    Accession Number: 66.10.15

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This room comes from the North Family Dwelling in the Shaker community of New Lebanon, New York, which functioned between 1787 and 1947. The room reveals some of the most typical characteristics of Shaker design: utility, simplicity, and beauty. It has clean, white plaster walls, a scrubbed pine floor, and simple stained woodwork that has aged to a warm ocher. It is furnished with objects that would have been found in a typical retiring room (bedroom), although none are original to it and some were made at other northeastern Shaker communities. Although this room is shown with only one bed, a room of this size would have been shared by several women.
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