- Creek Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery
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Creek Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery
Location: Salt Point Tnpk./Main St., Clinton Corners, New York Coordinates: 41°49′53″N 73°45′43″W / 41.83139°N 73.76194°WCoordinates: 41°49′53″N 73°45′43″W / 41.83139°N 73.76194°W Area: 4 acres (1.6 ha) Built: 1777 Governing body: Private MPS: Dutchess County Quaker Meeting Houses TR NRHP Reference#: 89000299[1] Added to NRHP: April 27, 1989 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.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ Melodye K. Moore (October 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Creek Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=1831. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
Categories:- Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in New York
- Religious buildings completed in 1782
- Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in New York
- Churches in Dutchess County, New York
- Quaker cemeteries
- Quaker meetinghouses in New York
- 18th-century Quaker meetinghouses
- Cemeteries in Dutchess County, New York
- Dutchess County, New York Registered Historic Place stubs
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