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  1. African Meeting House

    Infobox NRHP name African Meeting House nrhp type nhl image African Meeting House.jpg caption location ... 1069&ResourceType Building title African Meeting House accessdate 2008 02 01 work National Historic ... NRISref 2007a ref governing body Private refnum 71000087 The African Meeting House , also known variously as First African Baptist Church , First Independent Baptist Church and the Belknap Street Church ... 8, 1805. In the same year, land was purchased for a building. The African Meeting House, as it came ... members sat in the balcony of their new meeting house. The African Meeting House was constructed ... Regiment 55th Massachusetts regiments . The African Meeting House was remodeled by the congregation ... NHLS Text 71000087.pdf title National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination African Meeting House African Meeting House, First African Baptist Church date October 29, 1973 author Carol Ann ...., 1975 , pp.  491 525. External links commons category African Meeting House Boston http www.afroammuseum.org afmbeaconhill.htm African Meeting House http www.afroammuseum.org Museum of African American ... the total 7,700 to complete the meeting house. A commemorative inscription above the front door reads ... and raise money to build the church. ref Thomas Dalton and Lucy Lew ref The fa ade of the African Meeting ... . In addition to its religious and educational activities, the meeting house became a place for celebrations ... NHLS Photos 71000087.pdf Accompanying 1 photo, exterior, from 1972 180  KB ref The African Meeting House houses the Museum of African American History , which is a museum dedicated to preserving ... Museum of African American History Boston Welcome Bot generated title ref The African Meeting House is open to the public. This site is part of Boston African American National Historic Site ... Paul Dean minister Paul Dean . A discourse delivered before the African Society, at their meeting ... of Boston , Massachusetts , adjacent to the African American Abiel Smith School . It is a National ...   more details



  1. Meeting house

    File Marlboro Town House side view.jpg thumb right 300px The Town House of the small Vermont town of Marlboro, Vermont Marlboro was built in 1822 to be used for Town Meetings, which had previously been held in private homes. It is still in use today. Nearby is an example of a religious building called a meeting house , the Marlboro Meeting House Congregational Church. A meeting house describes a building where a public meeting takes place. This includes Secularity secular buildings which function like a town or city hall , and buildings used for religious meetings, particularly of some non conformist Christian denominations . Secular meeting houses details Colonial meeting house In New England towns in the United States, there are meeting houses which serve as a sort of town or city hall, and are used for public meetings, voting, and town offices. A meeting house may have a dual purpose as a place of worship and public discourse, as in early American Puritan congregations. Religious meeting houses File PewsOldShip.jpeg thumb right 200px Sheep pen pews, Old Ship Church Old Ship Meeting house , Hingham, Massachusetts , ca. 1880 Many non conformist Christian denominations distinguish between a Church , which is used to refer to a body of people who believe in Christ Meeting house or chapel , which refers to the building where the church meets Christian denominations which use the term meeting house to refer to the building in which they hold their worship include Congregationalist polity Congregational churches with their congregation based system of church governance. They also use the term mouth house s to emphasize their use as a place for discourse and discussion. Religious Society of Friends Quakers , see Friends meeting house s Mennonite Church Amish Church The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints Mormons uses the term meetinghouse for the building where congregations .... A meetinghouse differs from an Temple LDS Church LDS temple , which is a building dedicated to be a House ...   more details



  1. The Meeting House

    Official The Meeting House Website http www.theunderground.ws the Underground Youth Ministry ... www.youtube.com user themeetinghouse coord missing Ontario DEFAULTSORT Meeting House, The Category ...Multiple issues notability January 2010 refimprove January 2010 Infobox company company name The Meeting House company logo Image bruxy.jpg 200px company type Non profit Nonprofit Religious Organization foundation Oakville, Ontario Oakville 1985 location Oakville, Ontario Oakville , Ontario , Canada slogan a church for people who aren t into church products operating income net income num employees 33 full time 2006, CRA subsid homepage http www.themeetinghouse.com www.themeetinghouse.com footnotes The Meeting House is part of a denomination called the Brethren in Christ , or BIC for short. The Meeting House is a Canadian church building church located in the Toronto suburb of Oakville, Ontario Oakville , Ontario . It was founded in 1985 by Craig and Laura Sider, and was originally known as Upper Oaks Community Church . History In 1985, Craig and Laura Sider moved to the west end Toronto suburb of Oakville, Ontario to start Upper Oaks Community Church. They were supported by the Brethren in Christ . 1990 2000 In 1996, Craig and Laura accepted a leadership position with the Brethren in Christ in Pennsylvania. Bruxy Cavey became the Teaching Pastor and the church met at Iroquois Ridge High School. Shortly afterward, the church changed its name to The Meeting House. ref http www.themeetinghouse.com ref Leadership Bruxy Cavey is the Teaching Pastor. He is the author of the book http www.bruxy.com The End of Religion . Tim Day is the Senior Pastor and works with the Directors Team to provide overall leadership to the The Meeting House. Each Site is led by a Lead Pastor with a team of Elders and part time staff. Teachings The Meeting House teaching aligns with anabaptist teachings. They emphasize a lifestyle of compassion, peace and the priority of community. The Meeting House ...   more details



  1. Meeting House of the Friends Meeting of Washington

    Infobox nrhp name Meeting House of the Friends Meeting of Washington nrhp type image Friends Meeting of Washington DC.JPG caption location 2111 Florida Ave., NW., Washington, District of Columbia lat degrees 38 lat minutes 54 lat seconds 46 lat direction N long degrees 77 long minutes 2 long seconds 52 long direction W coord display inline,title locmapin District of Columbia architect Chatelain,Leon,Jr. Price & Walton architecture Colonial Revival added September 06, 1990 area less than one acre governing body Private refnum 90001294 ref name nris NRISref 2009a ref Meeting House of the Friends Meeting of Washington Friends Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house at 2111 Florida Avenue in NW Washington, DC . It was added to the National Register in 1990. References reflist National Register of Historic Places Category Churches in Washington, D.C. Category National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C. Category Colonial Revival architecture WashingtonDC NRHP stub ...   more details



  1. Abyssinian Meeting House

    Infobox NRHP name Abyssinian Meeting House nrhp type image AbyssinianMeetingHouse.JPG caption location 73 75 Newbury St., Portland, Maine coordinates coord 43 39 44 N 70 14 58 W region US ME type landmark display inline,title Google Maps suggests N 43 39 42 W 70 14 56 is a better position. long direction W coord display inline,title locmapin Maine area built 1828 architect Unknown architecture Federal added February 3, 2006 governing body Committee to Restore the Abyssinian added February 3, 2006 area less than one acre refnum 05001612 ref name nris NRISref version 2010a ref The Abyssinian Meeting House is an historic house built by Free negro free African Americans in Portland, Maine at 73 75 Newbury Street in the Munjoy Hill and downtown neighborhoods. ref name nris Established in 1828, the Meeting House was the cultural center for African Americans in southern Maine from its inception until foreclosure in 1917. It housed Portland s 19th century public school for black children. The house was redeveloped into tenement apartments in 1924 before being seized for unpaid taxes by the City of Portland in 1991. ref http portlanddailysun.me node 19091 18808 Abyssinian Meeting House focus of regional mapping Portland Daily Sun, February 18, 2010 ref After sitting vacant for 6  years, the Meeting House was bought in 1998 for historic preservation by the Committee to Restore the Abyssinian . When established, it was the third African American Meeting House in the United States after Boston, Massachusetts Boston and Nantucket, Massachusetts . ref http www.abyme.org images Abyssinian.pdf ... on the Meeting House. ref http www.wcsh6.com news article.aspx?storyid 85712 Volunteers, Archaeologists Dig At Old Abyssinian Meeting House WCSH6.com, April 26, 2008 Dead link date February 2009 ... Boston meeting Portland Daily Sun , February 18, 2011 www.abyme.org National Register of Historic Places Category Religious buildings completed in 1828 Category African American history of Maine Category ...   more details



  1. Great Friends Meeting House

    to the Newport Historical Society. gallery Image Newport Friends.JPG Interior of the meeting house ... gfmh.htm Newport Historical Society meeting house website http www.rootsweb.ancestry.com rinewpor quaker.html Mrs. William P. Buffum, The Story of the Old Friends Meeting House, Bulletin of the Newport ... Historical society museums in Rhode Island Category Quaker meeting houses in Rhode Island Category ...   more details



  1. Friends meeting house

    Friends Meeting House near Philadelphia, built 1769 A Friends meeting house is a meeting house ... Arch St Meeting interior.JPG thumb Interior of the Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia Quakers ... not as meeting house s . This practice is shared by a number of other non conformist Christian ..., but most were purpose built. Briggflatts Meeting House is an example of the latter. The hallmark of a meeting house is extreme simplicity and the absence of any liturgical symbols. More specifically ... house Meeting Houses built in a traditional style usually had two meeting rooms one for the main meeting ... of the world s people outside, or in some cases they provide a view into the meeting house garden ... Door.JPG thumb The Quaker Meeting House in Cong nies United Kingdom Briggflatts Meeting House , Cumbria Jordans Meeting House Jordans Friends Meeting House , Buckinghamshire Leicester Friends Meeting House Osmotherley Friends Meeting House , North Yorkshire France The historic meeting house of Cong nies Southern France , since 1788 United States Div col Abington Friends Meeting House Amesbury Friends Meeting House Arch Street Friends Meeting House , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania Benjaminville Friends Meeting House Cornwall Friends Meeting House Frankford Friends Meeting House ..., Massachusetts Friends Meeting House and Cemetery , Little Compton, Rhode Island Great Friends Meeting House Oblong Friends Meeting House Nine Partners Meeting House and Cemetery , Millbrook, New ... , Highland Mills, New York Highland Mills , NY Smithfield Friends Meeting House, Parsonage & Cemetery South River Friends Meetinghouse , Lynchburg, Virginia Third Haven Meeting House Upper Dublin Friends Meeting House Yardley Friends Meeting House, Yardley, Pennsylvania Div col end External links ... House http www.quaker.org.uk fam Friends meeting houses UK search Religious Society of Friends DEFAULTSORT Friends Meeting House Category Quakerism Category Religious buildings Category Types of church ...   more details



  1. Charles Street Meeting House

    Infobox Historic building image Image Charles Street Meeting House Beacon Hill Boston Massachusetts.jpg thumb right 300px Charles Street Meeting House caption Charles Street Meeting House name The Former Charles Street Meeting House Boston, Massachusetts location town Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts Beacon Hill , Boston, Massachusetts location country United States of America architect Asher Benjamin client The Third Baptist Church engineer ? construction start date 1804 completion date 1807 cost ? structural system Rendered masonry style Georgian Colonial The Charles Street Meeting House , is an early nineteenth century historic church in Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts Beacon Hill at 70 Charles Street Boston Charles Street , Boston, Massachusetts . The church has been used over its history by several Christian denominations and is a good example of reuse and adaptive reuse , having ... Street Meeting House Society. It was briefly an Albanian Orthodox church before the Society granted ... , p.64 65. ref The Meeting House is part of the Boston Black Heritage Trail and located in the Beacon ... that the developer incorporate some existing ornamental features. See also Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church , congregation formerly housed in the Charles St. Meeting House 1876 1939 References reflist Maryell Cleary , ed. A Bold Experiment The Charles Street Universalist Meeting House Chicago Meadville Lombard Theological School Press, 2002 . ISBN 0 9702479 3 1 External links commonscat inline Charles Street Meeting House Boston http www.iboston.org mcp.php?pid charlesStreetMtgHouse Charles Street Meeting House 1804 coord 42.3579 71.0706 display title Category Asher Benjamin ... View of Third Baptist Church at water s edge, 1850 First African Methodist Episcopal Church The Baptist congregation sold the structure to the Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church First African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1876. Pastors included William H. Hunter and J.T. Juniper. ref ...   more details



  1. Osmotherley Friends Meeting House

    Image OsmotherleyMeetingHouse.jpg right thumb Osmotherley Meeting House Osmotherley Friends Meeting House is a Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends Religious Society of Friends Quakers , situated in the village of Osmotherley, North Yorkshire Osmotherley in North Yorkshire , England . ref GENUKI UK and Ireland Genealogy , http www.genuki.org.uk big eng YKS NRY Osmotherley index.html The Ancient Parish of OSMOTHERLEY ref It is a Grade II listed building . The meeting house is a traditional stone building, built in around 1723, it is owned and maintained by Teesdale & Cleveland Area Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Quakers . It is still used regularly as a place of worship. Meeting for worship is held on the third Sunday of each month at 1500 hours GMT and all are welcome. The Meeting House and a separate dormitory block are available for letting to organised groups and families, both Quaker and non Quaker, and can sleep up to 25. References reflist External links http archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk 2002 8 31 122576.html Northern Echo article IoE 332500 Osmotherley Friends Meeting House coord 54.369 1.301 display title type landmark region GB NYK please check Category Churches in North Yorkshire Category Grade II listed churches Category Grade II listed buildings in North Yorkshire Category Quaker meeting houses in the United Kingdom Category Religious buildings completed in 1723 Category 18th century Quaker meeting houses Category Quakerism in England UK church stub ...   more details



  1. Apponegansett Meeting House

    Infobox NRHP name Apponegansett Meeting House nrhp type image Apponagansett MH.jpg caption location Dartmouth, Massachusetts lat degrees 41 lat minutes 35 lat seconds 2 lat direction N long degrees 70 long minutes 59 long seconds 43 long direction W locmapin Massachusetts area built 1791 architect Unknown architecture Georgian added March 14, 1991 governing body Private refnum 91000241 ref name nris NRISref 2008a ref Apponegansett Meeting House or Apponagansett Meeting House is a historic Quaker Friends meeting house on Russells Mills Road east of Fresh River Valley Road in Dartmouth, Massachusetts . The meeting house was built in 1791. The meeting house grounds contain a cemetery. ref Souvenir of the bi centennial of the Dartmouth Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends Massachusetts Published by Franklin Howland, 1899 http books.google.com books?id 4uEtAAAAYAAJ&source gbs navlinks s ref The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. References Reflist Registered Historic Places Category Religious buildings completed in 1791 Category 18th century Quaker meeting houses Category Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Category Quaker meeting houses in Massachusetts Category Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Category Churches in Bristol County, Massachusetts Category Cemeteries in Bristol County, Massachusetts BristolMA NRHP stub ...   more details



  1. Rocky Hill Meeting House

    Infobox nrhp name Rocky Hill Meetinghouse and Parsonage nrhp type nrhp image Rocky Hill Meeting House Amesbury, Massachusetts.JPG caption Rocky Hill Meeting House, Amesbury, Massachusetts . lat degrees lat minutes lat seconds lat direction long degrees long minutes long seconds long direction location Portsmouth Rd. and Elm St. br Amesbury, Massachusetts nearest city area built architect architecture designated added April 11, 1972 established visitation num visitation year refnum 72000115 mpsub governing body The Rocky Hill Meeting House circa 1785 is a well preserved New England meeting house located at 4 Portsmouth Road, Amesbury, Massachusetts . It is the best preserved example of an original 18th century meeting house interior in New England, and now a nonprofit museum owned by Historic New England and open to the public several afternoons a year. The meeting house was built to serve west parish of Salisbury in approximately 1785, replacing a c. 1715 meeting house. George Washington greeted local townspeople in this meeting house on his northward journey in 1789. By the 1840s, regular religious services had come to an end. Historic New England acquired the meeting house in 1941. Its interior has remained virtually unchanged since it was constructed, with the original high pulpit, pentagonal sounding board, deacon s desk, marbleized columns, box pews complete with graffiti and foot warmers , unfinished stairs to the gallery, and sloping gallery on three sides. The pews have never been painted, the marbleized pulpit and pillars supporting the galleries still feature their original paint, and the building still contains its original hardware. External links http www.historicnewengland.org historic properties homes rocky hill meeting house Historic New England Rocky Hill Meeting House Registered Historic Places coord missing Massachusetts Category Religious buildings completed in 1785 Category Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places ...   more details



  1. Caln Meeting House

    Infobox nrhp name Caln Meeting House nrhp type image CalnMeetingHouse.jpeg caption location 901 Caln Meeting House Rd., Caln Township, Coatesville, Pennsylvania lat degrees 40 lat minutes 0 lat seconds 26 lat direction N long degrees 75 long minutes 45 long seconds 55 long direction W coord display inline,title locmapin Pennsylvania built 1726 architecture added May 03, 1984 area convert 4 acre governing body Private refnum 84003182 ref name nris NRISref 2009a ref Caln Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house at 901 Caln Meeting House Road, Caln Township in Coatesville, Pennsylvania . It was built in 1726 and added to the National Register in 1984. Services are still held weekly at the meeting house. References reflist External links official http www.oldcalnmeetinghouse.org National Register of Historic Places Category Quaker meeting houses in Pennsylvania Category Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Category Religious buildings completed in 1726 Category 18th century Quaker meeting houses Category Churches in Chester County, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania NRHP stub ...   more details



  1. Meeting House Green

    Meeting House Green may refer to Meetinghouse Green Historic District , Ipswich, Massachusetts The green in Haddam Center Historic District in Connecticut Some other specific village green disambiguation ...   more details



  1. Frankford Friends Meeting House

    Orphan date February 2010 Infobox church name Frankford Friends Meeting House image FrankfordFriends.jpg caption Frankford Friends Meeting House from the Historic American Buildings Survey location Unity ... Yearly Meeting Frankford Preparative Friends Meeting House is a historic Quaker Friends meeting house meeting house in the Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia ... surviving meeting house in Philadelphia. Located at the corner of Unity and Waln Streets, it is now ... meeting nearby on Orthodox Street . It is affiliated with the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting . The historic building The original portion of the Frankford Preparative Friends Meeting House was built in 1775 76, making it the oldest Friends meeting house in Philadelphia. Although meeting houses were ... century. Frankford Meeting House was originally erected as a single cell, three by two bay structure. In 1811 12, a smaller two bay wide section was added to accommodate the growing meeting ... to the development of the two cell structure that became a standard for Friends meeting house design for nearly a century. Frankford s 1811 12 addition made the meeting house conform to the newer program by creating same sized rooms, reflecting a critical point in the evolution of meeting house design ... space for women s meetings. Frankford Meeting House is also of interest for its unusual mix of building ... was probably a function of economy. Materials from the previous meeting house were reused, minimizing ... ref The Friends meeting The Quaker meeting here was known from its establishment by the Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting in 1683 as Tacony after a nearby Frankford Creek creek , then as Oxford after ..., American Friends began meeting on separate sides of a partition for worship and business, with the partition ... http trilogy.brynmawr.edu speccoll mm frankpm.xml Brief history of the meeting at Bryn Mawr College ... Category Landmarks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Category Quaker meeting houses in Pennsylvania ...   more details



  1. Dana Meeting House

    Infobox nrhp name Dana Meeting House nrhp type image Dana Hill Meeting House.jpg caption location Dana Hill Rd., New Hampton, New Hampshire lat degrees 43 lat minutes 38 lat seconds 34 lat direction N long degrees 71 long minutes 38 long seconds 0 long direction W coord display inline,title coord parameters region US type landmark locmapin New Hampshire built 1800 architecture added December 13, 1984 area convert 0.4 acre governing body Private refnum 84000516 ref name nris NRISref 2009a ref Dana Meeting House also known as First Free Will Baptist Meeting House and Dr. Dana Meetinghouse is a historic meeting house on Dana Hill Road in New Hampton, New Hampshire . The meeting house was built in 1800 ... s tax subsidized New Hampton Town House would be used by the Congregationalists. The Baptist congregation originally met in homes until its meeting house was completed, and the early congregation was opposed ... were discontinued. Various summer services were held in the meeting house after the 1860s. Rev. Adoniram Judson Gordon , a prominent minister who was a native of New Hampton, often preached at the meeting house during the summers. Gordon went on to found Gordon College Massachusetts Gordon College . The meeting house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and contains box ... Meeting House First Free Will Baptist Church Church Clerk s Records 1800 1849 ref Josiah s son, Stephen ... his 80th birthday. Stephen Sleeper Magoon s house is across the street from the Dana Meeting house ... On March 9, 1801, the first town meeting was held in this meeting house. The names of many of the founding families are still on plaques on each of the pews in the meeting house, of where they were to sit. ref name Clerk s Records gallery File Dana Meeting House in New Hampton NH.jpg Dana Meeting House File Dana Meeting House interior in New Hampton NH.jpg Dana Meeting House File A.J. Gordon.jpg ... as one of three messengers to the Quarterly Meeting at Canterbury, New Hampshire Canterbury . In April ...   more details



  1. Starksboro Village Meeting House

    Infobox nrhp name Starksboro Village Meeting House nrhp type image Starksboro Village Meeting House Feb 11.jpg caption Starksboro Village Meeting House, February 2011 location VT 116, Starksboro Village, Vermont lat degrees 44 lat minutes 13 lat seconds 32 lat direction N long degrees 73 long minutes 3 long seconds 28 long direction W coord display inline,title coord parameters region US type landmark locmapin Vermont built 1838 architecture Gothic Revival added November 07, 1985 area convert 0.3 acre governing body Private refnum 85002768 ref name nris NRISref 2009a ref Starksboro Village Meeting House is a historic meeting house on VT 116 in Starksboro Village, Vermont . It was built in 1838 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. References reflist External links http www.starksboromeetinghouse.org Starksboro Village Meeting House website National Register of Historic Places Category National Register of Historic Places in Vermont Category Gothic Revival architecture in Vermont Category Religious buildings completed in 1838 Category 19th century Quaker meetinghouses Category Starksboro, Vermont Category Churches in Addison County, Vermont Vermont NRHP stub ...   more details



  1. Oblong Friends Meeting House

    Infobox NRHP name Oblong Friends Meetinghouse nrhp type image Oblong Friends Meeting House Pawling March 2007.jpg caption Meeting House in March 2007 location Meetinghouse Rd. on Quaker Hill, Pawling town , New York Pawling , New York NY nearest city Danbury, Connecticut Danbury, CT lat degrees 41 lat minutes 34 lat seconds 46 lat direction N long degrees 73 long minutes 32 long seconds 32 long direction ... ref mpsub http www.nr.nris.gov multiples 64000550.pdf Dutchess County Quaker Meeting Houses TR The Oblong Friends Meeting House is a late 18th century Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society ... in the 1730s and sought permission to establish a meeting and build a meeting house in 1740. The first meeting house was constructed across from the present building in 1742, but as membership grew, this building became too small and in 1763, the Yearly Meeting decided to erect a framed house of timber ... of galleries. This new house was built in 1764 and is the structure that has remained on the site since. In 1767, the question was raised in the meeting house whether it was consistent with the Christian ... in the nearby hills, both during the fall of 1778 and the winter of 1779. The meeting house was commandeered ... Meeting of the Society of Friends split into the Orthodox and Hicksite Societies of Friends. From then on, the Hicksites used the Meeting House, whereas the Orthodox Society, which had less members, built their own meeting house in 1831, just convert 200 ft m to the northwest. The latter building was later converted into a private residence. File Oblong Friends Meeting House interior.jpg left 200px ... Hill and Pawling in 1936 which has preserved the building since then. Location The Meeting House is located on the north side of Meeting House Road, about 100  meters from where it branches ... http www.nyym.org purchasequarter oblong.html online article by the Purchase Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends http www.pawlinghistory.org auto tour oblong meeting house.htm online ...   more details



  1. Colonial meeting house

    Colonial meeting house in Alna, Maine USA Image Alna ME DSC 0009.jpg thumb right 300px Interior of colonial meeting house in Alna, Maine USA Image Millville MA box pews.jpg thumb right 300px Box pews in the colonial meeting house in Millville, Massachusetts USA A colonial meeting house was a meeting house used in colonial New England built using tax money. The colonial meeting house was the focal ... The colonial meeting house was the central focus of every New England town. These structures ... wall. This window is one of the hallmarks of a colonial meeting house. Since it took considerable ... s end. Many of the typical white New England church started out as a colonial meeting house. Gallery gallery align center Image West Barnstable MA meeting house.jpg The colonial meeting house in West Barnstable, Massachusetts USA Image Cohasset meeting house.jpg Colonial meeting house in Cohasset, Massachusetts USA Image Brooklin CT pulpit window.jpg Pulpit window in the colonial meeting house in Brooklyn, Connecticut USA Image Interior Danville meeting house.jpg Interior of the Danville Meetinghouse colonial meeting house in Danville, New Hampshire USA gallery References Benes, Peter, Ed New England Meeting House and Church 1630 1850 . The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Annual .... New England Meeting House and Church 1630 1850 . Published by Boston University and The Currier Gallery ... Side Glimpses from the Colonial Meeting House . Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, New York, 1894. No ISBN ..., 2003. ISBN 1 58465 322 1. Clark, Charles E. The Meeting House Tragedy . University Press of New ... worship, and engage in town business. History The origin of the town meeting form of government , can be traced to meeting houses of the colonies. The meeting houses that survive today were generally ... A. Colonial Meeting Houses of New Hampshire . Self published, Reginald M. Colby, Agent, Littleton ... used book sellers. Wight, Charles Albert, B.A. Some Old Time Meeting Houses of the Connecticut Valley ...   more details



  1. Merion Friends Meeting House

    Infobox nrhp name Merion Friends Meeting House nrhp type nhl image Merion Friends Meeting House, 615 Montgomery Avenue changed from Montgomery Avenue & Meetinghouse Lane , Merion Station Montgomery County, Pennsylvania .jpg caption Merion Friends Meeting House location 615 Montgomery Ave., Merion Station, Pennsylvania lat degrees 40 lat minutes 0 lat seconds 34 lat direction N long degrees 75 long minutes 15 long seconds 17 long direction W locmapin Pennsylvania area built 1696 1714 architect local community of Friends architecture Other designated nrhp type August 6, 1999 ref name nhlsum cite web url http tps.cr.nps.gov nhl detail.cfm?ResourceId 248779612&ResourceType Building title Merion Friends Meeting House accessdate 2008 02 11 work National Historic Landmark summary listing publisher National Park Service ref added August 5, 1998 governing body Private refnum 98001194 ref name nris NRISref 2007a ref Merion Friends Meeting House in Merion, Pennsylvania Merion Station, Pennsylvania is the second oldest Friends meeting house in the United states and remains the place of worship of the http merionfriends.org Merion Monthly Meeting of The Religious Society of Friends Quakers . The meeting was founded by the first known group of Welsh settlers in the Americas who arrived in 1682 . The meeting house itself was constructed a few years later. The name monthly meeting reflects the self governing organization of the Society of Friends. Groups of Quakers who meet each month to conduct ... of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Merion Friends Meeting House 32  KB date February 3, 1998 ... nearby meetings, and will meet yearly with all the Friends in their regional yearly meeting. The meeting house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1999. ref name nhlsum ref name nrhpinv2 Cite ... Category Religious buildings completed in 1714 Category 18th century Quaker meeting houses Category Quaker meeting houses in Pennsylvania Category Churches in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania MontgomeryPA ...   more details



  1. Amesbury Friends Meeting House

    Infobox nrhp name Amesbury Friends Meeting House nrhp type image Friends Meeting House, Amesbury, MA.jpg caption Friends Meeting House in 1911 lat degrees 42 lat minutes 51 lat seconds 18 lat direction N long degrees 70 long minutes 56 long seconds 19 long direction W locmapin Massachusetts location 120 Friend St br Amesbury, Massachusetts nearest city area built 1850 architect Thomas W. Thorndike architecture Greek Revival designated added April 18, 2002 established visitation num visitation year refnum 02000376 ref name nris NRISref 2008a ref mpsub governing body The Amesbury Friends Meetinghouse is a Friends Meeting House in Amesbury, Massachusetts Amesbury , Massachusetts . The building was constructed in 1850, with poet John Greenleaf Whittier serving on the building committee. From 1851 to 1962, the meetinghouse hosted the Salem, Massachusetts Salem Quarterly meeting. The Amesbury Monthly Meeting of Friends is a current thriving congregation, with Meeting for Worship every Sunday at 10 AM. The facing bench displays a small plaque that reads, Whittier s Bench. Geography The meetinghouse is located at 120 Friend Street. Behind the meetinghouse is a town park with a pond and a playground. Current events In 2002, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places . The meetinghouse still hosts an active Quaker congregation, the Amesbury Friends Meeting. References Reflist External links http www.amesburyquaker.org meetinghouse.html Amesbury Friends Meeting website http nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com MA Essex state.html National Register of Historic Places http www.fgcquaker.org connect fall99 8.html Friends General Conference article on the meeting and meetinghouse Registered Historic Places Category Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Category Religious buildings completed in 1850 Category Quaker meeting houses in Massachusetts Category Buildings and structures in Salem, Massachusetts Category Churches ...   more details



  1. Amawalk Friends Meeting House

    Infobox nrhp name Amawalk Friends Meeting House nrhp type image caption location 2467 Quaker Church Road, Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598, Amawalk, New York lat degrees 41 lat minutes 17 lat seconds 32 lat direction N long degrees 73 long minutes 46 long seconds 18 long direction W coord display inline,title coord parameters region US type landmark locmapin New York built 1831 architecture added November 16, 1989 area convert 2.9 acre governing body Private refnum 89002004 ref name nris NRISref 2009a ref Amawalk Friends Meeting House is a historic Religious Society of Friends Quaker meeting house at 2467 ... 10371 title National Register of Historic Places Registration Amawalk Friends Meeting House ... in the Meeting and a number of members left, eventually building an Orthodox Meeting House in Yorktown ... s, the current Meeting House was built in 1831 after two previous buildings had burned down . By the mid ... and between 1964 and 1977 Amawalk Meeting House was closed. In 1977, a small group began meeting each First Day and a resurgence in the life of the Meeting began. A First Day School building was completed in 1987. That same year, Amawalk became a monthly meeting again. In the fall of 1989 , the Amawalk Friends Meeting House and Burial Ground were placed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Shortly thereafter, the Meeting House was renovated although it still retains the original wood stoves and oil lamps. Amawalk Meeting continues today with a small but dedicated group of Members and Attenders. Friends meet each First Day and continue to be active in the Meeting, the community ... Architecture, Amawalk Friends Meeting House National Register of Historic Places in New ... the mid 1760 s. By 1772, the Meeting at Amawalk had grown sufficiently that it requested permission from Purchase to build a Meeting House, completed in 1773. Preparative Meeting status was granted in 1774, and a Monthly Meeting set up in 1798. By 1828, Amawalk had under its care five Preparative Meetings ...   more details



  1. Buckingham Friends Meeting House

    Infobox nrhp name Buckingham Friends Meeting House nrhp type nhl image Buckingham Friends BucksCo PA ... Buckingham Friends Meeting House accessdate 2008 02 05 work National Historic Landmark summary ... addition Buckingham Friends Meeting House , in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania ... 97000291.pdf National Historic Landmark Nomination Buckingham Friends Meeting House Buckingham Meeting of Friends, Buckingham Monthly Meeting 645  KB date August, 2001 author Catherine C. Lavoie publisher National Park Service postscript None ref History The first meeting house on the site was built ... became more standardized, which may have encouraged the two cell form as a uniform meeting house design. In particular, marrying a non Quaker became grounds for disownment or being read out of the meeting. Since marriage was in the purview of the women s business meeting, their business meeting acquired a higher status and needed increased space. ref name Witness The use of the Buckingham Meeting House as a model began within a few years of its completion. In New Jersey at least five meeting ... to see the Meeting House. ref name Damon cite book last Tvaryanas first Damon coauthors David G. De Long Advisor title The New Jersey Quaker Meeting House A Typology and Inventory Masters Thesis ... ideal of simplicity was perhaps ignored by the Buckingham Meeting House s Georgian architectural ... loc.pnp hhh.pa3601 Historic American Buildings Survey HABS , Buckingham Friends Meeting House ... house. See also commonscat inline Buckingham Friends Meeting House Horsham Friends Meeting ... for other Friends Meeting Houses. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2003. ref ... Meeting year 2002 location pages 52 url doi id ref The current building was completed in 1768 and was the first of the doubled type meeting houses that became the standard form of Quaker meeting house for the next 100 years. ref name HABSloc Earlier meeting houses were generally single cell structures ...   more details



  1. Bay Meeting House and Vestry

    Infobox nrhp name Bay Meeting House and Vestry nrhp type image Bay Meeting House, Sanbornton, NH.jpg caption location Upper Bay and Steele Rds., Sanbornton, New Hampshire lat degrees 43 lat minutes 32 lat seconds 17 lat direction N long degrees 71 long minutes 32 long seconds 12 long direction W coord display inline,title coord parameters region US type landmark locmapin New Hampshire built 1836 architecture Federal, Gothic Revival added June 07, 1984 area convert 0.6 acre governing body Private refnum 84002508 ref name nris NRISref 2009a ref Bay Meeting House and Vestry is a historic meeting house on Upper Bay and Steele Roads in Sanbornton, New Hampshire . It was built in 1836 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. References reflist National Register of Historic Places DEFAULTSORT Bay Meeting House And Vestry Category Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire Category Federal architecture in New Hampshire Category Gothic Revival architecture in New Hampshire Category Religious buildings completed in 1836 Category 19th century Quaker meetinghouses Category Churches in Belknap County, New Hampshire NewHampshire NRHP stub ...   more details



  1. South Sutton Meeting House

    Infobox nrhp name South Sutton Meeting House nrhp type image caption location 17 Meeting House Hill Rd., South Sutton, New Hampshire lat degrees 43 lat minutes 19 lat seconds 14 lat direction N long degrees 71 long minutes 56 long seconds 7 long direction W coord display inline,title coord parameters region US type landmark locmapin New Hampshire built 1839 architecture Greek Revival added May 27, 1993 area convert 1 acre governing body Private refnum 93000462 ref name nris NRISref 2009a ref South Sutton Meeting House is a historic meeting house at 17 Meeting House Hill Road in South Sutton, New Hampshire . It was built in 1839 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. References reflist National Register of Historic Places Category Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire Category Religious buildings completed in 1839 Category Churches in Merrimack County, New Hampshire NewHampshire NRHP stub ...   more details



  1. Jersey Settlement Meeting House

    Infobox nrhp name Jersey Settlement Meeting House nrhp type image caption nearest city Linwood, North Carolina lat degrees 35 lat minutes 43 lat seconds 55 lat direction N long degrees 80 long minutes 18 long seconds 42 long direction W coord display inline,title locmapin North Carolina built 1842 architecture Greek Revival added July 10, 1984 area convert 6.5 acre governing body Private mpsub http pdfhost.focus.nps.gov docs NRHP Text 64000451.pdf Davidson County MRA refnum 84002032 ref name nris NRISref 2009a ref Jersey Settlement Meeting House also known as Jersey Baptist Church is a historic church and meeting house in Linwood, North Carolina . The Baptist congregation was founded around 1755 by settlers from New Jersey . The current Greek Revival church meeting house was built in 1842 near the Jersey Baptist Church Cemetery . The meeting house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. References reflist External links http www.jerseybaptist.org Official Church Website National Register of Historic Places Category Baptist churches in North Carolina Category Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Category Religious buildings completed in 1842 Category Churches in Davidson County, North Carolina NorthCarolina NRHP stub ...   more details




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