Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery

Crum Elbow Meeting House
and Cemetery
Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery is located in New York
Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery
Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery is located in the United States
Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery
Nearest cityEast Park, New York
Coordinates41°48.3′N 73°52.0′W / 41.8050°N 73.8667°W / 41.8050; -73.8667
Area2.1 acres (0.85 ha)
Built1797
MPSDutchess County Quaker Meeting Houses TR
NRHP reference No.89000302[1]
Added to NRHPApril 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. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Barbour, H.; Densmore, C.; Moger, E.H.; Sorel, N.C.; Van Wagner, A.D.; Worrall, A.J. (1995). Quaker Crosscurrents: Three Hundred Years of Friends in the New York Yearly Meetings. New York State Series. Syracuse University Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-8156-2651-0.
  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.