Brook Farm
Brook Farm, also called the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education or the Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, was a utopian experiment in communal living in the United States in the 1840s.
Brook Farm, also called the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education or the Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, was a utopian experiment in communal living in the United States in the 1840s. It was founded by former Unitarian minister George Ripley and his wife Sophia Ripley at the Ellis Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1841 and was inspired in part by the ideals of transcendentalism, a religious and cultural philosophy based in New England. Founded as a joint stock company, it promised its participants a portion of the farm's profits in exchange for an equal share of the work. Brook Farmers believed that by sharing the workload, they would have ample time for leisure and intellectual pursuits.
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Worth seeing in and around Brook Farm
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton
Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton is a Melkite Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church. The eparchy is named for Newton, Massachusetts, and encompasses the entire United States.
3.3 km · eparchy of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church · Wikipedia - 02Annunciation Melkite Catholic Cathedral
Our Lady of the Annunciation Melkite Greek Catholic Cathedral in the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, is a modern cathedral inspired by Byzantine architecture. It is the principal church of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton, which encompasses the entire United States, the seat of its hierarch, currently Bishop Francois Beyrouti, and the parish church of the Melkite Greek Catholic community in Greater Boston.
3.3 km · church in Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 03Hammond Pond Reservation
Hammond Pond Reservation is a protected woodland park in Newton, Massachusetts. It features Hammond Pond, fishing and hiking trails as well as formations of sandstone conglomerate and Roxbury puddingstone which are popular for rock climbing.
3.7 km · state park · Wikipedia - 04Cutler Park
Cutler Park Reservation is a state-owned nature preserve and public recreation area that lies between Route 128/I-95 and the Charles River in Needham, Massachusetts. The state park's 772 acres contain the largest remaining freshwater marsh on the middle Charles River.
2.1 km · state park in Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 05Hebrew College
Hebrew College is a private college of Jewish studies in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. Founded in 1921, the college conducts Jewish scholarship in a pluralistic, trans-denominational academic environment.
4 km · private college of Jewish studies in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 06Larz Anderson Park
Larz Anderson Park is a wooded, landscaped, and waterscaped 64-acre parkland in Brookline, Massachusetts that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The southeast corner of the park is in Boston.
3.9 km · urban park in Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 07Larz Anderson Auto Museum
Larz Anderson Auto Museum is located in the Anderson Carriage House on the grounds of Larz Anderson Park in Brookline, Massachusetts, and is the oldest collection of motorcars in the United States. The museum is a non-profit educational institution with community events, lectures, children's programs, walking tours of the park, and an ever-changing series of exhibits on motor vehicles and the automobile's impact on society and culture.
3.9 km · automobile museum in Larz Anderson Park, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 08Beaver Country Day School
Beaver Country Day School is an independent, college-preparatory day school for students in grades 6 through 12, founded in 1920. The school is located on a 17-acre campus in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, near Boston.
3.1 km · independent school in Chestnut Hill, MA, United States · Wikipedia - 09Holyhood Cemetery
Holyhood Cemetery is a cemetery located in Brookline, Massachusetts.
3.2 km · historic cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 10Walnut Hills Cemetery
Walnut Hills Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Grove Street and Allandale Road in Brookline, Massachusetts. It encompasses 45.26 acres, with mature trees and puddingstone outcrops, and was laid out in 1875 in the then-fashionable rural cemetery style.
2.5 km · cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts · Wikipedia
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Getting to Brook Farm
- Airports
- Boston Logan (BOS), 16 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 66 km · Bradley (BDL), 131 km
- Stations
- Roslindale Village station, 3.6 km · Hersey station, 3.9 km · West Roxbury station, 1.6 km
- Providence/Warwick → Brook Farm67 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · $6–8
- Portland → Brook Farm4070 km · quickest by air, 9h 18m · $460–710
- Hartford → Brook Farm139 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · $13–17
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Brook Farm
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Brook Farm. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are a few ferries plying their trades between Boston and Provincetown, and another company connects Plymouth to P-town.
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Brook Farm is 11 km from South Boston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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