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Features & Amenities
Imagine a place so beautiful and serene that the Shakers called it the "Chosen Vale." Just a few miles from the center of the Upper Valley, nearby Hanover, New Hampshire, home to Dartmouth College and the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, the property is also steps from the Enfield Shaker Museum, the LaSalette Shrine, the Center for Advanced Musical Studies, the Great Stone Dwelling and the eponymous Mary Keane Chapel, built in 1932.
At its peak in the mid 19th century, the community was home to three "Families" of Shakers. They practiced equality of the sexes and races, celibacy, pacifism and communal ownership of property. Shakers farmed over 3,000 acres of land, educated children in model schools and worshipped in the "Shaker Way."
The home is convenient to Interstate 89 and to jet service at nearby Lebanon (10 minutes), Manchester (60 minutes) and Boston Logan airports (90 minutes). A wide array of cultural and recreational activities from opera to downhill skiing and bass fishing to golf are within a short drive of the property.
First Floor:
- Chef's kitchen
- Living room with wood burning fireplace
- Family room
- Sun room
- 5th bedroom
- Dining room
- Porches
- 2 1/2 bathrooms
- Mud room
- Laundry
- Private living quarters
- 4 bedrooms
- 3 full baths
- An office alcove
- Screened in porch
- Private chapel with a marble altar
- Deeded access to private beach on Mascoma Lake
- Encircled by a low granite wall, fences and perennial gardens
- 1200 acres of adjoining field and woodlands owned by the State of New Hampshire
