Friends Meetinghouse (Uxbridge, Massachusetts)
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Friends Meetinghouse
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Friends Meeting House, Uxbridge, MA, 1770, Route 146A and Route 98; National Register of Historic Places
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| Nearest city | Uxbridge, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°2′21″N 71°37′16″W / 42.03917°N 71.62111°WCoordinates: 42°2′21″N 71°37′16″W / 42.03917°N 71.62111°W |
| Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
| Built | 1770 |
| NRHP Reference # | 74000395 |
| Added to NRHP | January 24, 1974 |
The Friends Meetinghouse is an historic Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) located at the junction of Routes 146A (Quaker Highway) and 98 (Aldrich Street) in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. On January 24, 1974, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The Friends Meeting House is one of the last crude brick church structures remaining in America. This building is on the National Registry of Historic Buildings. The Friends Meeting House was built in Uxbridge, Massachusetts in 1770, by Quakers from the Quaker Community in Smithfield, Rhode Island. It was built on the farm of Moses Farnum, circa 1769, from bricks made from a brickyard across the street. The structure is two stories and has a balcony. In the Quaker tradition there were separate entrances and meeting places for men and women. The "Quaker City" settlement is one of the earliest resettlements of Quakers into the Massachusetts Colony following their expulsion by the Puritans in the 17th century.
Friends Meeting house is a brick, two-story house with a rectangular gabled roof at 479 Quaker Hwy.
Quakers and others from Rhode Island and Massachusetts maintain this building, and unprogrammed Quaker worship is held there weekly. One of the founding members of this church was the Mowry family of Rhode Island. Richard Mowry was an influential member at Quaker City who constructed machines to manufacture woolens and cotton, thus becoming a pioneer in the American industrial revolution. He was a devout Quaker who traveled throughout the Northeastern US carrying his gospel far and wide. Mowry had other inventions to his credit and is viewed as an early pioneer of the Industrialization of the very early textile industrial center at Uxbridge from the time of the American Revolution.
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