Ceresco, Wisconsin
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Ceresco, also known as the Wisconsin Phalanx, was a commune founded in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States in 1844 by followers of the communitarian socialist ideas of Charles Fourier. Approx
Albert Brisbane (1809-1890), regarded as the intellectual founder of the American Fourierist movement of the 1840s
Warren Chase (1813-1891), a founder of Ceresco, later a State Senator and Free Soil Party gubernatorial candidate
The "edifice" of the Wisconsin Phalanx for collective dwelling was this "long house" more than 200 feet in length. As of 2014 the building was still in existence in its original location, used as an apartment building.
Elevated view of Fourier's concept of the edifice of a phalanstry, illuminating his architectural utopianism. Fourier sought construction of a massive longhouse connecting 1800 residents in a single dwelling, which enclosed common area.
Fourierism
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Fourierism is the systematic set of economic, political, and social beliefs first espoused by French intellectual Charles Fourier. It is based on a belief in the inevitability of communal associations
Ceresco, Wisconsin
…List of Fourierist Associations in the United States Fourierism Albert Brisbane, Social Destiny of Man, or, Association and Reorganization of Industry. Philadelphia, PA: C.F. Stollmeyer, 1840…
Fourierism is the set of ideas first put forward by French utopian socialist François Marie Charles Fourier (1772–1837).