Friends Meetinghouse (Jamestown, Rhode Island)

The Conanicut Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house at the junction of North Road and Weeden Lane in Jamestown, Rhode Island.^[2]

Friends Meetinghouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Conanicut Friends Meeting House
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Location	Jamestown, Rhode Island
Coordinates	41°30′52″N 71°22′31″W
Built	1786
Part of	Windmill Hill Historic District (ID73000276)
NRHP reference No.	73000276[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	March 7, 1973
Designated CP	October 2, 1978

The structure was built in 1786 to replace the original meeting house destroyed by the British after they occupied Conanicut Island in 1776. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and is included in the Windmill Hill Historic District. It is still used for religious services during the summer. It contains the Old Friends' Burial Ground.

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  Rear view of the Friends Meeting House
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  Front view of the Friends Meeting House
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  Front view of Friends Meeting House with Jamestown Windmill in background

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
2. Harold Wickliffe Rose. The Colonial Houses of Worship in America. New York: Hastings House, Publishers, 1963, p. 419. “273 Conanicut Friends Meeting House (1786) Conanicut Island, Jamestown County, Rhode Island”

External links

• Listing and photographs of the Burial Ground at the Historic American Buildings Survey