Which communal living experiment was founded by Transcendentalists in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1841?
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Correct answer: Brook Farm
Brook Farm was intended to combine 'plain living and high thinking' by having intellectuals share in manual labor. Though it eventually failed financially, it remains a famous example of the era's utopian impulse.
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