“A Time to Build” debuts at the Kinderhook Knitting Mill Saturday, May 31. Shaker architecture is known for its simplicity, utility, and beauty. This approach was so central to the Shaker belief system that it was even defined in their Millennial Laws, the rules to which all Believers adhered: Form followed function, superfluous decoration was eschewed in favor of clean lines, and built to be used by the entire community. Come see the objects with which they built
