Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery
Appearance
Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery | |
Location | Oswego Rd. at jct. with Smith Rd., Moore's Mill, New York |
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Coordinates | 41°42′10″N 73°43′46″W / 41.70278°N 73.72944°W |
Area | 1.9 acres (0.77 ha) |
Built | 1790 |
MPS | Dutchess County Quaker Meeting Houses TR |
NRHP reference No. | 89000301[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 27, 1989 |
Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery is a historic Society of Friends meeting house and cemetery in Moore's Mill, Dutchess County, New York. It was built in 1790 and is a 1+1⁄2-story frame building sided with clapboards and wooden shingles. It has a moderately pitched gable roof and two entrances on the front facade, each flanked by two windows. The cemetery contains about 50 stones and burials range in date from the 1790s to 1880s. Also on the property is a privy.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
References
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- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2015-07-01. Retrieved 2016-04-01. Note: This includes Melodye K. Moore (October 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-04-01.
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[edit]Categories:
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
- Churches completed in 1790
- Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
- Churches in Dutchess County, New York
- Quaker cemeteries
- Quaker meeting houses in New York (state)
- Cemeteries in Dutchess County, New York
- 1790 establishments in New York (state)
- 18th-century Quaker meeting houses
- National Register of Historic Places in Dutchess County, New York