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Colonial meeting house in Alna, Maine Interior of colonial meeting house in Alna, Maine Box pews in the colonial meeting house in Millville, Massachusetts. A colonial meeting house was a meeting house used by communities in colonial New England. Built using tax money, the colonial meeting house was the focal point of the community where the ...
This is considered the oldest surviving Friends meeting house in America. [11] Some Friends meeting houses were adapted from existing structures, but most were purpose-built. The 1675 Brigflatts Meeting House in Cumbria, England is an example of the latter. The hallmark of a meeting house is extreme simplicity and the absence of any liturgical ...
Oldest Quaker meeting house in the United States. Forge Farm: Warwick: RI 1684 Residential Oldest part of house dates to 1684. C. A. Nothnagle Log House: Gibbstown: NJ 1685 Residential Purportedly the oldest surviving log house in the U.S. and one of the oldest houses in New Jersey. Old Indian Meeting House: Mashpee: MA 1685 Religious Oldest ...
A "meeting" is the equivalent of a church congregation, and a "meeting house" is the equivalent of a church building. Several Friends meetings were founded in Pennsylvania in the early 1680s. [a] The Merion Friends Meeting House is the only surviving meeting house constructed before 1700. [3]
meeting house or chapel, which is a building where the church meets. [3] [4] In early Methodism, meeting houses were typically called "preaching houses" (to distinguish them from church houses, which hosted itinerant preachers). [5]
This is a list of Friends meeting houses. Numerous Friends meeting houses are individually notable, either for their congregations or events or for architecture of their historic buildings. Some in the United Kingdom are registered as listed buildings , and in the United States are listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Merion Friends Meeting House: Merion Station: c. 1715: Religious One of the oldest Quaker meeting houses in America Newtown Square Friends Meeting House: Newtown Township, Delaware County: 1711 Religious Early Welsh Quaker settlers in one of William Penn's two planned "new towns" built this meeting house in 1711. Thomas Story House
Earliest portion built in 1771. Enlarged in early 19th century. Maryland Inn: Annapolis, Maryland: c. 1772: Hotel Pipe Creek Friends Meetinghouse: Union Bridge, Maryland: 1772 Meeting House Interior destroyed by fire in 1934. Maryland State House: Annapolis, Maryland: 1772–1797 Government Oldest state house in continuous use in the United States.