Pembroke Friends Meetinghouse

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Pembroke Friends Meetinghouse
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Location Pembroke, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°6′17″N70°48′18″W / 42.10472°N 70.80500°W / 42.10472; -70.80500 Coordinates: 42°6′17″N70°48′18″W / 42.10472°N 70.80500°W / 42.10472; -70.80500
Built 1706/1833
Architectural style Federal
NRHP reference #

06000786

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Added to NRHP September 6, 2006

The Pembroke Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker church at Washington Street and Schoosett Street in Pembroke, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

Pembroke, Massachusetts Town in Massachusetts, United States

Pembroke is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 17,837 at the 2010 census.

Plymouth County, Massachusetts County in the United States

Plymouth County is a county in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of the 2010 census, the population was 494,919. Its county seats are Plymouth and Brockton. In 1685 the County was created by the Plymouth General Court, the legislature of Plymouth Colony, predating its annexation by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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The meeting house was built in 1706 by Robert Barker with later 19th-century additions. It is one of the oldest Quaker meetinghouses in the United States. This meetinghouse was used by local Quakers from 1706 until 1876 when the meetinghouse was closed and its members transferred to meetings in either Sandwich or New Bedford. Today the Meetinghouse is owned by the Pembroke Historical Society and has seen occasional use by area Quakers. [2]

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.

Sandwich, Massachusetts Town in Massachusetts, United States

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The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. [1]

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

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Plymouth County, Massachusetts Wikimedia list article

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

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HABS photo, 1934