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Colora Meetinghouse
Location: Corncake Row, Colora, Maryland Coordinates: 39°40′32″N 76°5′56″W / 39.67556°N 76.09889°WCoordinates: 39°40′32″N 76°5′56″W / 39.67556°N 76.09889°W Built: 1841 Architect: Unknown Architectural style: No Style Listed Governing body: Private NRHP Reference#: 77000689
[1]Added to NRHP: August 22, 1977 The Colora Meetinghouse is a historic Friends meeting house located at Colora, Cecil County, Maryland, United States. It is six bays wide and one room deep, and measures 36 feet by 22 feet, in the traditional plan with separate entrances for the men and women and a sliding door to divide the interior into two areas. The meeting house was built in 1841 because of a doctrinal division in the West Nottingham Friends Meeting. Its walls are constructed of 18-inch-thick (460 mm) stuccoed fieldstone, with a wooden box cornice. The building features two interior end chimneys protruding through a slate roof. The property includes a small cemetery and a two-story building built in 1869, and used as a Friends schoolhouse until 1890 when public schools were built.[2]
The Colora Meetinghouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.[1]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ "Maryland Historical Trust". National Register of Historic Places: Colora Meetinghouse. Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-10-05. http://mht.maryland.gov/nr/NRDetail.aspx?HDID=428&COUNTY=Cecil&FROM=NRCountyList.aspx?COUNTY=Cecil.
External links
- Colora Meetinghouse, Cecil County, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust
U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Lists by county Allegany • Anne Arundel • Baltimore County • Calvert • Caroline • Carroll • Cecil • Charles • Dorchester • Frederick • Garrett • Harford • Howard • Kent • Montgomery • Prince George's • Queen Anne's • Somerset • St. Mary's • Talbot • Washington • Wicomico • Worcester
Lists by city Other lists Keeper of the Register • History of the National Register of Historic Places • Property types • Historic district • Contributing property Categories:- Quakerism stubs
- Quaker meeting houses in Maryland
- Churches in Cecil County, Maryland
- Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
- Religious buildings completed in 1841
- Maryland Registered Historic Place stubs
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