Newberry Friends Meeting House
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Newberry Friends Meeting House
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Newberry Friends Meeting House, November 2011
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| Location | U.S. Route 150/State Road 56, west of Paoli, Paoli Township, Orange County, Indiana |
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| Coordinates | 38°33′54″N 86°30′3″W / 38.56500°N 86.50083°WCoordinates: 38°33′54″N 86°30′3″W / 38.56500°N 86.50083°W |
| Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
| Built | 1856 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 95001534 |
| Added to NRHP | January 11, 1996 |
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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