Built in 1822 in South Union, Kentucky, the Center House served one of the 24 Shaker villages and later became home to the Shaker Museum at South Union. Over the village’s 115-year history, its members built more than 200 buildings, worked 6,000 acres of farmland, and produced goods such as garden seed, fruit preserves, textiles, and household wares for their own use and for sale. The well-known Shaker song Love is little originated here in the 1830s. After the South Union Shaker community disbanded in 1922, the property was sold in 1949 to the Benedictines, who established an interracial monastery there.