Built 1856 (1856) Opened 1856 Added to NRHP 11 January 1996 | NRHP Reference # 95001534 Area 8,000 m² | |
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Location U.S. Route 150/State Road 56, west of Paoli, Paoli Township, Orange County, Indiana Architectural style Greek Revival architecture Similar Seven Peaks Water Par, Indiana Beach, Holiday World & Splashin, Black Pine Animal Sanctuary, Fort Wayne Children's Zoo | ||
Newberry Friends Meeting House, now the Friends of Jesus Fellowship Friends Church, is a historic Quaker meeting house and cemetery located in Paoli Township, Orange County, Indiana. It was built in 1856, and is a one-story, rectangular, vernacular Greek Revival style frame building. It sits on a rubble limestone foundation and is sheathed in clapboard siding. The adjacent cemetery was established in 1818, and the earliest marked burials date to the 1840s. The congregation played a significant role in the settlement of African Americans in Orange County.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
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