Amawalk Friends Meeting House
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Amawalk Friends Meeting House is a historic Quaker
meeting house
on Quaker Church Road in Amawalk, Westchester County, New York
. It was built in 1831 and is a two story, rectangular wood frame building measuring 30 feet by 40 feet. It rests on a fieldstone
foundation and there is a single brick chimney in the center of the slate covered gable roof.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
in 1989.
Religious Society of Friends
The Religious Society of Friends, or Friends Church, is a Christian movement which stresses the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. Members are known as Friends, or popularly as Quakers. It is made of independent organisations, which have split from one another due to doctrinal differences...
meeting house
Meeting house
A meeting house describes a building where a public meeting takes place. This includes secular buildings which function like a town or city hall, and buildings used for religious meetings, particularly of some non-conformist Christian denominations....
on Quaker Church Road in Amawalk, Westchester County, New York
Westchester County, New York
Westchester County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Westchester covers an area of and has a population of 949,113 according to the 2010 Census, residing in 45 municipalities...
. It was built in 1831 and is a two story, rectangular wood frame building measuring 30 feet by 40 feet. It rests on a fieldstone
Fieldstone
Fieldstone is a building construction material. Strictly speaking, it is stone collected from the surface of fields where it occurs naturally...
foundation and there is a single brick chimney in the center of the slate covered gable roof.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1989.