Emans Rd., LeGrangeville, New York. County/parish: Dutchess.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 27, 1989. NRIS 89000303.
Part of Dutchess County Quaker Meeting Houses TR (NRIS 64000550).
1 contributing building. 1 contributing site.
Beekman Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery is located on Emans Road in LaGrangeville, New York, United States. The meeting house is a wooden building from the early 19th century that has been unused and vacant for decades. As a result, it is in an advanced state of decay, and mostly collapsed. The cemetery, better preserved, is located a short distance away.
The meeting house was built in 1809 for a meeting that split off from another one in the nearby hamlet of Oswego. After the Hicksite-Orthodox schism in 1828, it was one of only two meetings in the county to embrace Orthodox Quakerism. After that meeting dissolved in the early 20th century, it was for a time a Grange hall. It and its nearby cemetery were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312692