Newberry Friends Meeting House, now the Friends of Jesus Fellowship Friends Church, is a historic Quaker meeting house and cemetery located in Paoli Township, Orange County, Indiana. It was built in 1856, and is a one-story, rectangular, vernacular Greek Revival style frame building. It sits on a rubble limestone foundation and is sheathed in clapboard siding. The adjacent cemetery was established in 1818, and the earliest marked burials date to the 1840s. The congregation played a significant role in the settlement of African Americans in Orange County.[2]: 5, 10
Newberry Friends Meeting House | |
 Newberry Friends Meeting House, November 2011 | |
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| Location | U.S. Route 150/State Road 56, west of Paoli, Paoli Township, Orange County, Indiana |
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| Coordinates | 38°33′54″N 86°30′3″W / 38.56500°N 86.50083°W |
| Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
| Built | 1856 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 95001534[1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 11, 1996 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "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 Thelma Lindley (May 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Newberry Friends Meeting House" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-06-01. and Accompanying photographs.
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