over yet unfinished Ann Lee Home.
13 Apr 1929 Mary Dahm makes various kinds of candy almost
everyday and sells it to the "Pre" boys.
23 May 1929 Caroline and Lucy go to airport. See 10 buses
loaded with children come to see airplanes.
22 July 1929 Freida Sipple and Lucy go for a walk and are
invited to see the children's gardens at the Pre.
23 July 1929 Lucy promises her four garden tools to the
children at the Pre; they come for them.
Albany County did raze many buildings on the CF. These were
mainly those made of wood--the dwelling house, infirmary, herb
shop, seed shop, hired men's house, office barn, meeting house
sheds, old meeting house, etc. But they also tore down the five-
story Stone Sisters' Shop. They retained the 1849 Meeting House
but covered the outside with brick and modified the entrances.
So there now remain eight Shaker-built buildings on the site--
the 1822 Brethren Shop, the Ministry Shop, the Meeting House, the
Office (or Preventorium), the Laundry, the barns (rebuilt in 1916
after the old ones had burned), the small drying house by the
Shaker Creek, and the garage. At one time, when the Ann Lee Home
became crowded before the opening of the Albany County Nursing
Home, the ministry and cloak rooms of the Meeting House were
modified to house men, as was the Ministry Shop.
After having their office on the top floor of the Office
Building for a couple of years, the Shaker Heritage Society was
able to obtain the use of the Meeting House from Albany County.
The Catholic chapel was no longer in use. There is now a long
term contract with the County for the use and rehabilitation of
the Meeting House and restoration is under way. The Ministry
Shop was renovated in 1987 by the County to house foreign student
nurses who came to work in their facilities. The 1822 Shop and
the Office are used as offices for the County Health Related Fa-
cilities. The 1856 drying building is used by SHS for the demon-
stration of broom-making.




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