Nine Partners Meeting House and Cemetery
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Nine Partners Meeting House
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South elevation and west profile, 2008
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| Location | Millbrook, NY |
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| Nearest city | Poughkeepsie |
| Coordinates | 41°46′32.757″N 73°41′15.0858″W / 41.77576583°N 73.687523833°WCoordinates: 41°46′32.757″N 73°41′15.0858″W / 41.77576583°N 73.687523833°W |
| Area | 9 acres (3.6 ha) |
| Built | 1780 |
| MPS | Dutchess County Quaker Meeting Houses TR |
| NRHP Reference # | 89000300 |
| Added to NRHP | April 27, 1989 |
The Nine Partners Meeting House and Cemetery is located at the junction of NY state highway 343 and Church Street, in the village of Millbrook, New York, United States. The meeting house, the third one on the site, was built by a group of Friends ("Quakers") from the Cape Cod region, Nantucket and Rhode Island in 1780.
It was the largest meeting in the Hudson Valley, and many other meetings split off from it. Unusually, it was located near a developed area, and the Friends in it were more prosperous than their co-religionists elsewhere in the region. Its size and use of brick, along with several other architectural features, are unusual for meeting houses.
Attendance at meetings dwindled over the course of the 19th century, and in 1897 control of the property was turned over to the Nine Partners Burial Ground Association. It is still used for occasional Quaker events, and is well preserved from the days of its regular use. In 1989 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of a Multiple Property Submission of Quaker meeting houses in Dutchess County.
The meeting house and cemetery are located on a 9-acre (3.6 ha) lot at the northeast corner of the road intersection. The undulating terrain slopes up gently towards the northeast. The surrounding properties are similar large lots, some wooded and others cleared, used for residential purposes.
There are four contributing resources on the property. The meeting house itself is located at the southeast corner, with the cemetery taking up the north and west. Behind the meeting house are a garage and shed, both modern and non-contributing, with a contributing well and pumphouse closer to the cemetery. In front of it is a sundial, a contributing object. A fence with brick entrance gates runs along Route 343.
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