Yet another of the buildings moved to Dorset Village by Charles A. Wade, this amazing classical building stopped me in my tracks when walking along the town’s marble sidewalks. It turns out this little structure was constructed in Enfield, Massachusetts, a town that was flooded in the 1930s for the filling of the Quabbin Reservoir. The building was likely built in the 1840s as a Congregational chapel, and upon hearing about the demise of the town, Wade drove to Enfield and brought back this charming little chapel for his hometown of Dorset. Upon its arrival to Vermont in 1938, the Greek Revival building was used as the town’s post office until a larger building was constructed in the 1960s. This building was converted to a real estate office and is now home to Flower Brook Pottery.
Buildings of New England 
There are quite a number of old buildings from Enfield that survived in other locations. There is one in Belchertown MA on Allen Street where I lived for five years. The old town hall in Prescott still stands. The historical society in New Salem runs a bus each fall to the building—the only way to visit the sole remaining building within the bounds of the four former towns.
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Time for me to take a field trip!
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In fact, one of the historical society buildings is a church that was moved from North Prescott.
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http://americancenturies.mass.edu/collection/itempage.jsp?itemid=18203
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