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East Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York.The district consists of a series of large 19th and early 20th century homes, houses of worship, meeting houses, and museums.
The Third Meetinghouse is an historic church, community meeting house and Grange Hall at 1 Fairhaven Road in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts.Built in 1816, it is the town's oldest surviving public building, and the one in which the meeting leading to its separation from Rochester took place.
A cemetery was also established near the new meeting house, but the ground was found to be too wet, and the bodies were removed to the Old Rochester Cemetery. In 1842 the Meeting House/church was moved to the present-day location at the corner of Liberty and South Main streets.
The building at the Manhasset Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends has a long, rectangular layout. [2] A cemetery is also located on the property, as well as a large lawn. A stone fence surrounds the property. [2] The property is located at 1421 Northern Boulevard, on the north side of that road's intersection with Shelter Rock Road. [2]
It was built between 1777 and 1782. The meeting house is a two-story, squarish building constructed of fieldstone. Land for the building was given by Able Peters, [2] whose substantial brick house is the next building on the same side of the road north of the meeting house. In 1828 the Friends Creek Meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox ...
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, the dimensions to be 45 feet (14 m) long, 40 feet (12 m) wide and 15 feet (4.6 m) stud to admit of galleries."
The Chappaqua Friends Meeting House, built 1753, is the oldest Quaker meeting house in Westchester County, New York, a stop on the Underground Railroad and a birthplace of the abolitionist movement in New York. [1] In 1776 it would serve as a hospital for Continental Army soldiers injured at the nearby Battle of White Plains. [2]
The school, located at 112 Schermerhorn Street, was built in 1902 and is a three-story red brick building located adjacent to the meeting house, at 112 Schermerhorn Street. It was designed by William Tubby, a prominent Brooklyn architect, [3] to house the Brooklyn Friends School. Tubby was himself a Quaker and an early graduate of the school. [4]