Quaker Meeting-house (New York City)

The (Former) Quaker Meeting-house

General information
Town or city	Hester and Elizabeth Streets, New York, New York
Country	United States of America
Completed	1818
Client	The Religious Society of Friends
Technical details
Structural system	Masonry

The Quaker Meeting-house on Hester and Elizabeth Streets, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, was a meetinghouse for the Religious Society of Friends, built in 1818. Recorded in 1876 by the New York Express that it “has for a long time been the office of the New York Gas Light Company,” now Consolidated Edison. It was presumed demolished.^[1]^[2]

References[]

^ Stern, Robert A. M.; Mellins, Thomas; Fishman, David (1999). New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age. Monacelli Press. p. 735. ISBN 978-1-58093-027-7. OCLC 40698653.
^ J. Russiello, A Sympathetic Planning Hierarchy for Redundant Churches: A Comparison of Continued Use and Reuse in Denmark, England and the United States of America (MSc Conservation of Historic Buildings, University of Bath, 2008), p.395.

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