Friends Meeting House and Friends Seminary (New York City, New York)
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New York City, New York /
Rutherford Place, 15
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The Friends Meeting House and Seminary, designated a Net" York City Landmark in 1967, occupies the entire end of the block on Rutherford Place between 15th and 16th Streets overlooking Stuyvesant Square. The Meeting House, set back on the lot, is connected to the T-shaped Seminary building to the north. Built in 1860-61 for the "Hicksite" Quakers, both buildings display a conservative style,
reminiscent of the Federal and Greek Revival styles popular two or three decades earlier. Builder Charles Bunting, a member of the meeting, was responsible for the construction and probably also for the design.
The earliest mention of a Friends Meeting in Manhattan is under the date of 12th of 8th month (August) 1687. A schism developed in 1827 when the followers of Elias Hicks seceded from the main orthodox body of the meeting. The "Hicksites" moved into the newly completed meeting house on Rutherford Place in 1861. The "Orthodox'' Friends built a new meeting house on Henry Street, between Catherine and Market Streets. This division continued until 1958, when the branches were reunited; the Meeting House on Rutherford Place became the home of the entire New York Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends.
A restoration of the facade begun in 1989 included the reparation of the wooden doors and portico. A century and a half after being built, the Friends Seminary continues as a vibrant private day school; the oldest continuously coeducational school in New York City, in recent years it has served approximately 800 students in grades K-12. The school also acquired three of the neighboring row houses to the west, converting them into additional space.
www.friendsseminary.org
reminiscent of the Federal and Greek Revival styles popular two or three decades earlier. Builder Charles Bunting, a member of the meeting, was responsible for the construction and probably also for the design.
The earliest mention of a Friends Meeting in Manhattan is under the date of 12th of 8th month (August) 1687. A schism developed in 1827 when the followers of Elias Hicks seceded from the main orthodox body of the meeting. The "Hicksites" moved into the newly completed meeting house on Rutherford Place in 1861. The "Orthodox'' Friends built a new meeting house on Henry Street, between Catherine and Market Streets. This division continued until 1958, when the branches were reunited; the Meeting House on Rutherford Place became the home of the entire New York Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends.
A restoration of the facade begun in 1989 included the reparation of the wooden doors and portico. A century and a half after being built, the Friends Seminary continues as a vibrant private day school; the oldest continuously coeducational school in New York City, in recent years it has served approximately 800 students in grades K-12. The school also acquired three of the neighboring row houses to the west, converting them into additional space.
www.friendsseminary.org
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_Seminary
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 40°44'1"N 73°59'7"W
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- Friends' Central School 137 km
- Westtown School 158 km
- Moses Brown School 248 km
- Sandy Spring Friends School 315 km
- Guilford College 729 km
- Earlham College 933 km
- Friends University 2039 km
- George Fox University 3957 km
- Bournville 5423 km
- Stuyvesant Square Park 0.1 km
- Consolidated Edison Building 0.2 km
- Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital 0.3 km
- Gramercy 0.3 km
- First Avenue Subway Station (L) 0.5 km
- Stuyvesant Town 0.6 km
- NoHo 0.7 km
- East Village 0.9 km
- Kips Bay 1 km
- Alphabet City 1.1 km
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