Shaker Retiring Room | The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/collection-areas/the-american-wing/period-rooms/shaker-room
This room has been installed with architectural elements from a Retiring Room in the North Family Dwelling at Mount Lebanon, New York. Mount Lebanon was a religious community established by the United Society of Believers in the Second Appearing of Christ, also known as the „Shakers.“ The Retiring Room served as both a bedroom and place to retire to „in silence, for the space of half an hour, and labor for a sense of the gospel, before attending meeting.“
United States In 1774, Ann Lee and eight members of the Shakers traveled from Liverpool