Pleasant Hill Shaker Village

Jim DeLaney

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On a recent trip to Pleasant Hill, I was very impressed with the quality and diversity of the woodworking there. The Shakers used wooden items in nearly every facet of their lives. I took a lot of pictures, and would like to share them here.

Let's start with probably two of their most famous things - the spiral staircases, and the "U" shaped drawered attic cabinet:
 

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More wood Stuff
 

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And more wood stuff...
 

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And more wood stuff...
 

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And more wood stuff...
 

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And more wood stuff...
 

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And still more more wood stuff...
 

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By now you're probably tired of seeing all these pictures, so this is the last batch. :D
 

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thanks for sharun all the pics jim:):thumb::thumb: and now i to have a question for you on the one room where they had a chest type lid being held up with a rope,, what did they do in that? looked like it might have been some kind of food storage area they also had a jug on the floor near it..
 
On the U-shaped attic drawer cabinet, what did they do about the dead space in the corners?

I don't know, Brent - but considering the Shaker's efficiency, I can't imagine that it's wasted.

...on the one room where they had a chest type lid being held up with a rope,, what did they do in that? looked like it might have been some kind of food storage area they also had a jug on the floor near it..

That was actually in the basement of the 'great hall,' where the kitchen storage was. It was a 'cool storage' locker actually dug into the floor.
 
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