Quaker Meeting-house (New York City) explained

The (Former) Quaker Meeting-house
Location Town:Hester and Elizabeth Streets, New York, New York
Location Country:United States of America
Client:The Religious Society of Friends
Completion Date:1818
Structural System:Masonry

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

40.7175°N -73.9962°W

Notes and References

  1. 735.
  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.