Location Harmony, Rhode Island Architectural style Federal Area 8,000 m² Added to NRHP 25 June 1980 | Architect Unknown NRHP Reference # 80000098 Phone +1 401-934-0243 Burials Fred Tenney | |
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Address Putnam Pike, Harmony, RI 02829, USA Similar North Burial Ground, Union Cemetery, Swan Point Cemetery, Notre Dame Cemetery | ||
The Harmony Chapel and Cemetery (also known as "Harmony Meeting House" or "Harmony Cemetery") are a historic church and cemetery in Harmony, Rhode Island, a village in Glocester.
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Overview
The wood-frame chapel adjacent to the cemetery sits on US Route 44 west of Edgewood Drive. Built as a schoolhouse in c. 1830, it is one of the few Federal-style schoolhouses to survive in the state, and is probably the best-preserved of that period. It was later (by 1870) converted for use as a meeting house (free chapel) for villagers. Residents would occasionally hire ministers to speak and hold various Christian religious ceremonies.
The cemetery behind the chapel was used as a private cemetery by the Steere, Smith and other local families until opened for public use in 1878.