Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery

Crum Elbow Meeting House
and Cemetery
Nearest city East Park, New York
Coordinates 41°48.3′N 73°52.0′W / 41.8050°N 73.8667°W / 41.8050; -73.8667Coordinates: 41°48.3′N 73°52.0′W / 41.8050°N 73.8667°W / 41.8050; -73.8667
Area 2.1 acres (0.85 ha)
Built 1797
MPS Dutchess County Quaker Meeting Houses TR
NRHP Reference # 89000302[1]
Added to NRHP April 27, 1989

Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery is a historic Society of Friends meeting house and cemetery in East Park, Dutchess County, New York. It was built in 1797, with an addition built about 1810. It is a two story, white painted frame building with weather board siding and a moderately pitched gable roof. The surrounding rural cemetery contains plain Quaker style markers dated from about 1797 to 1890.[2] [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Hugh Barbour, Quaker crosscurrents:three hundred years of Friends in the New York Yearly Meetings (Syracuse University Press, 1995), pg. 46 https://books.google.com/books?id=q7B25EPMla4C&source=gbs_navlinks_s
  3. Melodye K. Moore (October 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2010-10-31.


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