Creek Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery
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Creek Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery is a historic Society of Friends
meeting house
and cemetery
on Salt Point Turnpike/Main Street in Clinton Corners, Dutchess County, New York
. It is located directly across the street from the Clinton Corners Friends Church
. It was built between 1777 and 1782. It is a two story, squarish building constructed of fieldstone
. It has a slate
covered, moderately pitched gable roof. The surrounding cemetery contains over 100 stones, largely marble and in plain Quaker style.
It was listed on 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....
and cemetery
Cemetery
A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...
on Salt Point Turnpike/Main Street in Clinton Corners, Dutchess County, New York
Dutchess County, New York
Dutchess County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, in the state's Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. The 2010 census lists the population as 297,488...
. It is located directly across the street from the Clinton Corners Friends Church
Clinton Corners Friends Church
Clinton Corners Friends Church, also known as Clinton Corners Evangelical Free Church, is a historic Society of Friends meeting house on Salt Point Turnpike/Main Street in Clinton Corners, Dutchess County, New York. It is located directly across the street from the Creek Meeting House and Friends'...
. It was built between 1777 and 1782. It is a two story, squarish building constructed of fieldstone
Fieldstone
Fieldstone is a building construction material. Strictly speaking, it is stone collected from the surface of fields where it occurs naturally...
. It has a slate
Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. The result is a foliated rock in which the foliation may not correspond to the original sedimentary layering...
covered, moderately pitched gable roof. The surrounding cemetery contains over 100 stones, largely marble and in plain Quaker style.
It was listed on 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.