Brook Farm, also known as the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education or the Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, was a utopian community for communal living founded in 1841 at the Ellis Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. It was established by former Unitarian minister George Ripley and his wife Sophia Ripley, drawing on the transcendentalist philosophy current in New England at the time. Organized as a joint stock company, it promised participants a share of the farm's profits in exchange for an equal share of its work, on the belief that shared labor would leave ample time for leisure and intellectual life.
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Farm, Concepts Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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1. Brook Farm - Wikipedia
History
purchased on October 11, 1841, for $10,500
Introduction
Fire destroyed the Transcendentalists' buildings over the years.
View the Source2. Brook Farm (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Farm)
Wikidata item Q928662, instance of (P31): farm
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Boston, United States
Wikidata item Q928662, property P131/P17 (location): Boston, United States
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