Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery explained

Crum Elbow Meeting House
and Cemetery
Nearest City:East Park, New York
Coordinates:41.805°N -125°W
Built:1797
Added:April 27, 1989
Refnum:89000302

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.[1] [2]

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

Notes and References

  1. Book: Barbour, H. . Densmore . C. . Moger . E.H. . Sorel . N.C. . Van Wagner . A.D. . Worrall . A.J. . Quaker Crosscurrents: Three Hundred Years of Friends in the New York Yearly Meetings . Syracuse University Press . New York State Series . 1995 . 978-0-8156-2651-0 . 46.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery. October 1988. 2010-10-31 . Melodye K. Moore. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.