Newberry Friends Meeting House


Newberry Friends Meeting House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Newberry Friends Meeting House, November 2011
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Location	U.S. Route 150/State Road 56, west of Paoli, Paoli Township, Orange County, Indiana
Coordinates	38°33′54″N 86°30′3″W / 38.56500°N 86.50083°W / 38.56500; -86.50083Coordinates: 38°33′54″N 86°30′3″W / 38.56500°N 86.50083°W / 38.56500; -86.50083
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	1856 (1856)
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP Reference #	95001534^[1]
Added to NRHP	January 11, 1996

Newberry Friends Meeting House, now the Friends of Jesus Fellowship Friends Church, is a historic Quaker meeting house and cemetery located in Paoli Township, Orange County, Indiana. It was built in 1856, and is a one-story, rectangular, vernacular Greek Revival style frame building. It sits on a rubble limestone foundation and is sheathed in clapboard siding. The adjacent cemetery was established in 1818, and the earliest marked burials date to the 1840s. The congregation played a significant role in the settlement of African Americans in Orange County.^[2]^{:5, 10}

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2016-06-01. Note: This includes Thelma Lindley (May 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Newberry Friends Meeting House" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-06-01. and Accompanying photographs.

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