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Quaker Meeting-house (New York City)

Coordinates: 40°43′03″N 73°59′46″W / 40.7175°N 73.9962°W / 40.7175; -73.9962
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The (Former) Quaker Meeting-house
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General information
Town or cityHester and Elizabeth Streets, New York, New York
CountryUnited States of America
Completed1818
ClientThe Religious Society of Friends
Technical details
Structural systemMasonry

The Quaker Meeting-house on Hester and Elizabeth Streets, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, was a meetinghouse for the Religious Society of Friends, built in 1818. Recorded in 1876 by the New York Express that it "has for a long time been the office of the New York Gas Light Company", now Consolidated Edison. It was presumed demolished.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ Stern, Robert A. M.; Mellins, Thomas; Fishman, David (1999). New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age. Monacelli Press. p. 735. ISBN 978-1-58093-027-7. OCLC 40698653.
  2. ^ J. Russiello, A Sympathetic Planning Hierarchy for Redundant Churches: A Comparison of Continued Use and Reuse in Denmark, England and the United States of America (MSc Conservation of Historic Buildings, University of Bath, 2008), p.395.

40°43′03″N 73°59′46″W / 40.7175°N 73.9962°W / 40.7175; -73.9962