Matinecock Friends Meetinghouse
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Matinecock Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker
meeting house
located at Piping Rock and Duck Pond Roads in Locust Valley
, Nassau County, New York
. It was built in 1725 and is a two story, rectangular building topped by a steeply pitched gable roof. It is two bays wide and four bays long, sheathed in shingles.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1976.
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....
located at Piping Rock and Duck Pond Roads in Locust Valley
Locust Valley, New York
Locust Valley is a hamlet located in Nassau County, New York. Locust Valley is an unincorporated area of the Town of Oyster Bay...
, Nassau County, New York
Nassau County, New York
Nassau County is a suburban county on Long Island, east of New York City in the U.S. state of New York, within the New York Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,339,532...
. It was built in 1725 and is a two story, rectangular building topped by a steeply pitched gable roof. It is two bays wide and four bays long, sheathed in shingles.
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 1976.