Friends Meetinghouse (Jamestown, Rhode Island)
Friends Meetinghouse | |
![]() Conanicut Friends Meeting House | |
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Location | Jamestown, Rhode Island |
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Coordinates | 41°30′52″N 71°22′31″W / 41.51444°N 71.37528°WCoordinates: 41°30′52″N 71°22′31″W / 41.51444°N 71.37528°W |
Built | 1786 |
Part of | Windmill Hill Historic District (ID73000276) |
NRHP reference No. | 73000276[1] |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | March 7, 1973 |
Designated CP | October 2, 1978 |
The Conanicut Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house at the junction of North Road and Weeden Lane in Jamestown, Rhode Island.[2]
The structure was built in 1786 to replace the original meeting house destroyed by the British after they occupied Conanicut Island in 1776. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and is included in the Windmill Hill Historic District. It is still used for religious services during the summer.
Rear view of the Friends Meeting House
Front view of the Friends Meeting House
Front view of Friends Meeting House with Jamestown Windmill in background
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ Harold Wickliffe Rose. The Colonial Houses of Worship in America. New York: Hastings House, Publishers, 1963, p. 419. “273 Conanicut Friends Meeting House (1786) Conanicut Island, Jamestown County, Rhode Island”
External links[]
- Listing and photographs of the Burial Ground at the Historic American Buildings Survey
Categories:
- Quaker meeting houses in Rhode Island
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
- Churches completed in 1786
- Buildings and structures in Jamestown, Rhode Island
- Churches in Newport County, Rhode Island
- 18th-century Quaker meeting houses
- National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island
- Newport County, Rhode Island Registered Historic Place stubs
- Rhode Island religious building and structure stubs