Newberry Friends Meeting House

Historic church in Indiana, United States

United States historic place


Newberry Friends Meeting House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Newberry Friends Meeting House, November 2011
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 No.	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

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "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.