Cornwall Friends Meeting House

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Cornwall Friends Meeting House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Meeting house in 2007
Meeting house in 2007
Location: Cornwall, NY
Nearest city: Newburgh
Coordinates: 41°26′01″N 74°02′35″W / 41.43361, -74.04306Coordinates: 41°26′01″N 74°02′35″W / 41.43361, -74.04306
Built/Founded: 1790
Added to NRHP: 1988
NRHP Reference#: 88002751
Governing body: Private religious congregation

The Cornwall Friends Meeting House is a Quaker place of worship in the town by that name in Orange County, New York. It gives its name to Quaker Avenue, the street it is located on between Cornwall-St. Luke's Hospital and US 9W.

Built in 1790, it emulates the doubled style of meeting house pioneered by Buckingham Friends Meeting House in Pennsylvania two decades earlier.[1] It was the first house of worship built in the town,[2] which had been settled by Quaker David Sands, whose house is a mile (1.6 km) to the east.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Buckingham Friends Meeting House National Historic Landmark ApplicationPDF (166 KiB), retrieved August 1, 2007.
  2. ^ Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY: Historic churches. Retrieved on 2007-08-01.

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