Rye Meeting House | |
Location: | 624 Milton Rd., Rye, New York |
Coordinates: | 40.9533°N -73.6889°W |
Built: | c. 1850, 1867, 1871, 1875, 1877 |
Architecture: | Stick Style |
Added: | January 14, 2011 |
Refnum: | 10001134[1] |
Rye Meeting House, also known as Milton Mission Chapel, Grace Chapel, and the Friends Meeting House, is a historic Quaker meeting house located at Rye, Westchester County, New York. The property is adjacent to the Bird Homestead. It is a one-story, wood-frame building on a stone foundation with two main volumes, a nave and an asymmetrical transept. The exterior is sheathed in clapboard and shingles and exhibits characteristics of the Stick style. The front facade features a -story bell tower. The building was built in the 1830s as a school house. It was moved to its present site in 1867, and enlarged in 1871, 1875, and 1877. At the time, the church was a mission church of nearby Christ's Church, an Episcopal church. The Quakers obtained the property in 1959. The property was deeded to the city of Rye in 2002.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.[1] In 2015, The Preservation League of New York State selected the historic restoration work completed on Rye Meeting House to receive an Excellence in Historic Preservation award.[3]