Sandy Spring Friends Meetinghouse

Sandy Spring Friends Meetinghouse

Sandy Spring Friends Meeting House in 1936
Location 17715 Meeting House Road, Sandy Spring, Maryland
Coordinates 39°8′50″N 77°1′31″W / 39.14722°N 77.02528°W / 39.14722; -77.02528Coordinates: 39°8′50″N 77°1′31″W / 39.14722°N 77.02528°W / 39.14722; -77.02528
Area 9 acres (3.6 ha)
Built 1817 (1817)
Architectural style Federal
NRHP Reference # 72000587[1]
Added to NRHP September 22, 1972

The Sandy Spring Friends Meetinghouse is a historic building located at Sandy Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland. It is a large, Flemish bond brick, Federal-style Quaker Meeting House built in 1817. The meetinghouse is on two acres deeded by James Brooke in the 1750s, for the use of the Quaker Meeting. Nearby is the cemetery where he and many of his descendants were buried.[2]

In the mid-1900s a community house was built adjacent, "where first day school" classes and "young friends" meet. The weekly meeting (congregation) was also essential in the formation of Sandy Spring Friends School, and Friends House (an assisted living community), both built nearby on Norwood Road.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Mrs. Preston Parish (February 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Sandy Spring Friends Meetinghouse" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.


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