- Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery
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Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery
Location: Oswego Rd. at jct. with Smith Rd., Moore's Mill, New York Coordinates: 41°42′10″N 73°43′46″W / 41.70278°N 73.72944°WCoordinates: 41°42′10″N 73°43′46″W / 41.70278°N 73.72944°W Area: 1.9 acres (0.77 ha) Built: 1790 Governing body: Private MPS: Dutchess County Quaker Meeting Houses TR NRHP Reference#: 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
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ Melodye K. Moore (October 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=1836. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
Categories:- Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in New York
- 1790 architecture
- Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in New York
- Churches in Dutchess County, New York
- Quaker cemeteries
- Quaker meetinghouses in New York
- Cemeteries in Dutchess County, New York
- Dutchess County, New York Registered Historic Place stubs
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