NRHP Reference # 76001996 Opened 1819 Added to NRHP 22 April 1976 | Built 1819 Address Preston, CT 06365, USA Area 8,000 m² | |
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Similar Christ Episcopal Church, St Mary's Rc Church, Unitarian Universal Church, St Nicholas Orthodox Church, Cornersto Internatio Church | ||
The Long Society Meetinghouse is a historic church building on Long Society Road in Preston, Connecticut. It is one of only about a dozen surviving colonial "broad side" meeting houses, and is the last example surviving in Connecticut that has not been altered from that configuration by the addition of a tower or relocation of its entrance or pulpit. The meeting house was built from 1817 to 1819 on the site of an earlier meetinghouse, incorporating some elements of the earlier building. The meeting house was used both as a church and for civic functions, the reason for its plain, not overtly religious appearance.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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