The Manor House dates back to almost twenty years after the Tyringham Shakers were established in 1782. The double entry doors, one for the Shaker Brothers and one for the Sisters, stand as testaments to the rich history of the home and the property.
Indeed, while there are numerous luxuries, there is both beauty and simplicity in the inherent elegance of the home. Period, hand-crafted details throughout the home include rich wood floors, exposed post and beam old-growth timbers, colonial-era hardware and woodwork, and millwork.
Extensively renovated in 2005, including a brand-new kitchen that has evolved into a keeping room, there are sixteen rooms in all, seven bedrooms, including a palatial master suite, and four full and two half baths.
The home was brought soundly into the twenty-first century to help ensure the home lasts for another two hundred years. The work included (but is not limited to) extensive basement and foundation and drainage work, all siding was replaced, the roofs redone as needed, plumbing, heating, electrical work, a new Buderus heating system, as well as the renovation or addition of varying living spaces.
The library features a hand-painted wall mural evoking the history of the property and the character of the Berkshires.
The breakfast room has French doors opening to a stone terrace.
The master suite with a marvelously high ceiling, antique beams, fireplace, sitting room, office and expansive bath.
The Manor House is surrounded on two sides by a covered porch and breezeway and open to spectacular vistas to the east. Perennial gardens are planted along the perfectly maintained stone walls that run like ribbons throughout the hillside estate, some dating from the time of the Shakers.
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