Newberry Friends Meeting House

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Newberry Friends Meeting House

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Newberry Friends Meeting House, November 2011
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Location U.S. Route 150/State Road 56, west of Paoli, Paoli Township, Orange County, Indiana
Coordinates 38°33′54″N86°30′3″W / 38.56500°N 86.50083°W / 38.56500; -86.50083 Coordinates: 38°33′54″N86°30′3″W / 38.56500°N 86.50083°W / 38.56500; -86.50083
Area 2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built 1856 (1856)
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP reference # 95001534 [1]
Added to NRHP January 11, 1996

Newberry Friends Meeting House, now the Friends of Jesus Fellowship Friends Church, is a historic Quaker meeting house and cemetery located in Paoli Township, Orange County, Indiana. It was built in 1856, and is a one-story, rectangular, vernacular Greek Revival style frame building. It sits on a rubble limestone foundation and is sheathed in clapboard siding. The adjacent cemetery was established in 1818, and the earliest marked burials date to the 1840s. The congregation played a significant role in the settlement of African Americans in Orange County. [2] :5, 10

Quakers family of religious movements

Quakers, also called Friends, are a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends, Society of Friends or Friends Church. Members of the various Quaker movements are all generally united in a belief in the ability of each human being to experientially access "the light within", or "that of God in every one".

Meeting house Building in which religious and sometimes public meetings take place

A meeting house is a building where religious and sometimes public meetings take place.

Cemetery Place of burial

A cemetery or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word cemetery implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term graveyard is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2016-06-01.Note: This includes Thelma Lindley (May 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Newberry Friends Meeting House" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-06-01. and Accompanying photographs.