Manhasset Quaker Friends Meeting House

 Quaker faith / Society of Friends, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, 1810s construction, quaker/friends meeting house

The first Quaker Meeting House at Cow Neck (not extant) was built c.1719-20. The site, one half acre and nineteen square rods, was given by Joseph Latham, who at that time owned all of the land from Gildersleeve's Creek (Leeds Pond) to the present Northern Boulevard, and from the Bay to about one quarter mile east of the Meeting House. That building stood about one hundred feet southwest of the present location, on the west side of Shelter Rock Road. At that time the highway known as Shelter Rock Road, probably the oldest in the vicinity, joined the Herrick's Pond area to the Plandome Mill area. It passed to the east of the Meeting House and continued north from here in roughly a straight line to join the current Plandome Road, along the side of the brook which had its source just north of the Meeting House, thence along the course of the brook north to tide water. This road was abandoned in 1751 and the present Plandome Road was laid out, in general as it is today.

In 1809 it was proposed to erect the second (current) Meeting House on Thomas Appleby's land on Middle Neck Road, but in 1812 it was concluded to erect this new building on the old grounds, just northeast of the original structure. The old building was torn down and the present Meeting House was built, erected from both old and new materials. The old benches, with some new ones, were used in the building, completed in 1812.

Their records are currently held at Swarthmore College in the Friends Historical Library.

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