National Register of Historic Places

Cornwall Friends Meeting House

Cornwall, Orange County, New York
Listed
December 8, 1988
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
88002751

About this property

The Cornwall Friends Meeting House is a historic meeting house located on a 5.4-acre (2.2 ha) parcel of land at the junction of Quaker Avenue (Orange County 107) and US 9W in Cornwall, New York, United States, near Cornwall-St. Luke's Hospital. It is both the oldest religious building in the town, and the first one built. In 1988 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a well-preserved, minimally-altered example of a late 18th-century Quaker meeting house. Built in 1790, it emulates the doubled style of meeting house pioneered by Buckingham Friends Meeting House in Pennsylvania two decades earlier. David Sands-Ring, a local convert to the Religious Society of Friends and the son of a wealthy landowner, sponsored the construction of the meeting house. At first a branch of the Nine Partners meeting near present-day Millbrook in Dutchess County, it later became an independent congregation within the Society. Members also maintain the Smith Clove Meetinghouse in Highland Mills to the south of Cornwall.

Location

275 Quaker Ave.
Cornwall, Orange County, New York
41.43419, -74.04323

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When was Cornwall Friends Meeting House listed on the National Register?

Cornwall Friends Meeting House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 8, 1988.

What type of historic resource is Cornwall Friends Meeting House?

Cornwall Friends Meeting House is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Cornwall Friends Meeting House?

The period of significance for Cornwall Friends Meeting House is recorded as the industrial era.

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