Area less than one acre Built by R.A. Winters Opened 1913 Added to NRHP 29 March 1996 | Built 1913 (1913) NRHP Reference # 96000344 Phone +1 641-673-9717 Architect A.T. Simmons | |
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Location 912 N. C St.
Oskaloosa, Iowa Address 411 College Ave, Oskaloosa, IA 52577, USA Architectural style Colonial Revival architecture Similar St James Episcopal Church, Ulysses Simpson Grant Ele, Eveland Bridge, Phil Hoffman House | ||
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Iowa Yearly Meeting House-College Avenue Friends Church is a historic church building located in Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States. The Colonial Revival structure was designed by Bloomington, Illinois architect A.T. Simmons, and completed in 1913. As their membership declined, Quakers in Iowa decided to concentrate on a few fundamental tenets of their faith, but gave way on their traditional concerns about simplicity and restraint. This more elaborate building replaced a simple 2½-story, brick and stone structure that was completed in 1865. The building project was a cooperative arraignment that included the Yearly Meeting, the Monthly Meeting, and nearby William Penn College. Oskaloosa had been chosen as the location of the Iowa Yearly Meeting, or the denominational headquarters, because of its central location to where the Quakers settled west of the Mississippi River. The previous building had separate meeting facilities for men and women, and this one does not. That separation was no longer considered necessary by the time this building was built. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.