Walnut Ridge Friends Meetinghouse

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Walnut Ridge Friends Meetinghouse
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Walnut Ridge Friends Meetinghouse, October 2011
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LocationWest of Carthage, Ripley Township, Rush County, Indiana
Coordinates 39°43′41″N85°36′48″W / 39.72806°N 85.61333°W / 39.72806; -85.61333
Area4 acres (1.6 ha)
Built1827 (1827), 1866, 1890, 1972, 1976
Architectural styleItalianate
NRHP reference No. 84001616 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 1, 1984

Walnut Ridge Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house located in Ripley Township, Rush County, Indiana. It was originally built in 1826 as a log cabin, burned by The Knights of The Golden Circle, a group of Southern sympathizers in 1864, and rebuilt in 1866, and is a one-story, vernacular Italianate style brick building with a moderately pitched gable roof. It features a projecting octagonal entrance bay added in 1890 at the time of an extensive renovation. The building was remodeled in 1972 and a fellowship room addition constructed in 1976. The Walnut Ridge Meeting was established in 1827. [2] :2–3

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  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 Loyall J. Hunt (November 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Walnut Ridge Friends Meetinghouse" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-06-01. and Accompanying photographs.