78 Shaker Rd

Taxes: $23,876 (2025)

About this home

Owner will consider offers. Eat, Pray, Live, Create. Be inspired in this spacious home that has fledged artists, writers, thinkers and scholars for more than a century. Built by Shakers with a thoughtful simple aesthetic that connected this home to a whole community. Whether you need space, privacy, light, nature or quietude, this home and location have it all. Pure Shaker detail. The floorplan includes a large living room with a fireplace, a very large dining room, two full and one-half bath, multiple living levels allowing for any use imaginable. Interior features include natural woodwork, warm wood floors, large windows, a sunporch with banked windows, Shaker peg rails, built-in cupboards in nearly every room and classic Shaker stair railings. Set on over two acres offering garden areas abutting New England Forest. Come discover what Harvard and this wonderful Shaker home can offer you. Potential for interior ADU or nonprofit adaptive reuse.

Property details

Sewer

On-Site

Style

Antique

Water

Private Water

Cooling

Individual

Heating

Heat Pump, Individual

Type

Detached

Flooring

Wood, Pine

Road type

Public, Paved, Publicly Maint.

Appliances

Range, Dishwasher, Refrigerator

Master Bath

Yes

Construction

Aluminum, Post & Beam

Roof

Shingle

Garage

Attached, Under

Lot

Level

Parking

1-10 Spaces

Basement

Full, Finished, Walk Out, Sump Pump, Exterior Access

Electric

Circuit Breakers, 200 Amps

Exterior

Porch - Enclosed, Garden Area

Interior

Cable Available, Walk-up Attic, Internet Available - Unknown