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Amawalk Friends Meeting House

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In the years after the Civil War, the meeting's decline continued. Realizing that its insularity and withdrawal from society at large had been part of the reason for this, in 1869 the Society stopped discouraging its members from holding public office. The Amawalk meeting also improved its amenities,
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On the second story all windows are two-over-two double-hung sash, set in plain wooden surrounds without shutters. A smaller two-over-two is set in the apex of both gables at the attic level. On the south, scrolled brackets against the clapboard section support a molded cornice similar to that on the
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Membership began to decline in the 1840s, due in part to the effects of the schism on the meetings and the general fragmentation of society. In 1848 the Croton meeting was dissolved. At some point around this time, the shed addition was built on to the western side of the meeting house to serve as a
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Growth continued, and the Amawalk meeting requested and received permission to build its first meeting house, on the current site, in 1772. It was completed the following year, and Amawalk was granted Preparative Meeting status in 1774. Five years later, the first meeting house was damaged by fire.
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for their use, usually shun any architectural influences of their time in favor of a restrained plainness. Originally the meeting house's interior had a wall to allow for separate men's and women's business meetings, since women sometimes felt overwhelmed in the presence of men; this is the reason
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It stands out from other Quaker meeting houses in two ways. Since the Orthodox meetings had, like the Amawalk splinter group, generally been the ones to leave and build their own meeting houses, while the Hicksites stayed in the existing buildings, the Amawalk meeting house is a rare meeting house
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and Salem, could not. They were discontinued in 1883 and the remaining members merged into Amawalk. Even so, two years later the separate men's and women's meetings were merged. By the end of 1886 Amawalk's records indicate that it had just 96 members; no new members joined that year. Three years
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By the mid-1830s the minutes record that 74 families were members of the meeting. There was turnover among them—some members left the area or were disowned for alcohol use, marrying non-Quakers, or failure to attend meetings; but they were replaced by members who moved in from other areas and new
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Conversely, the cemetery, rising up the hillside to the west, is considered a contributing site. Its graves, some of which are thickly overgrown, date from the late 18th century when the meeting was established to the present. The oldest with an identifiable name on its marker is that of Eugent
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The porch has a low concrete deck. In its middle are three plain wooden benches with curved backs arranged in a square pattern, facing outward. At its west end a single paneled wooden door leads into the shed-roofed addition. The roof is supported by seven square wooden pillars with curved
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Repairs were not done until 1783, and by that time the meeting had already decided to build a new house. The new meeting house was completed and paid for two years later. It was described as being of similar dimensions to the current building, with timber posts 17 feet (5.2 m) and
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feet (2.6 m) above the ground floor, 9 feet (2.7 m) deep on the southern side and 7 feet (2.1 m) on the east and west sides. The former has loose benches while the latter sections have fixed ones. A ladder on the east side climbs to the full-length
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A short gravel driveway gives access to the property from the road, passing under the century-old oak and maple trees that shade and screen most of the lot. The meeting house is on the north of the parking area at its end. It is a two-and-a-half-story rectangular
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Ten years later, the meeting no longer had enough members to sustain itself. In 1964 it was officially closed. The house remained, suffering from neglect. What members there had been remained socially active, helping a Vietnamese family resettle in the area.
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The few remaining members of the Amawalk meeting allowed Capa to be buried in their cemetery. Later his mother and sister-law were buried in the same plot, and Capa's biographer Richard Whelan joined them when he died. In 2008 Cornell, who had founded the
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Meetings continued despite the continuing decline in members, although they were not held regularly. In 1920 Hicksite and Orthodox Quakers reached out to each other and began the long process of reconciling; it would take almost a half-century.
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Near the end of 1830, the Amawalk meeting house burned. This time the damage was complete. The following year the current meeting house was built. Its construction costs came in slightly over the budgeted $ 1,250 ($ 36,000 in modern dollars).
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At the end of the century, in 1798, Amawalk finally received its own status as a Monthly Meeting. With the newer, bigger meeting house, members kept being added. By 1828, Amawalk had had under its care five Preparative Meetings:
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building. It is a smaller timber frame gable-roofed structure with the same siding and color treatment as the meeting house. Since it was built on the site of the meeting's stable in the 1970s, it is considered a
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echoing the doors. On the east facade's first story are similarly treated six-over-six double-hung windows. The western addition has a single similar window but without shutters, as does the northern facade.
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The new members made the property their priority. The First Day School building was completed in 1987, with full modern amenities, on the site of a former horse stall. During the week it was used by a local
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to renovate the interior of the building, which had suffered from insect infiltration and water seepage over the years. The meeting raised its half through an auction of historic photos organized by
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design. They simply list the deceased's name, relationship to any others nearby, date of birth and date of death on the side facing away from the meeting house. Some graves have no markers at all.
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Two separate entrances with paneled wooden double doors are located just inside the outermost windows of the ground floor underneath the porch. The windows themselves are six-over-six double-hung
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Both entrances open into the main meeting room, with cushioned wooden benches similar to those on the porch arranged facing the center. Some, meant for the meeting's, are fixed in place; The
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touches, again unusual. Its interior was renovated and the building resided when meetings were revived after a brief period of dormancy. However, many of its original furnishings remain.
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was the third they built; fire destroyed both predecessors. Not only is it one of the most well-preserved and intact in the county, it is a rare surviving meeting house built by a
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asked the meeting to consider whether such an act was appropriate; the next month it was decided that it was not. The Amawalk meeting nevertheless followed the strong and growing
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Monthly Meeting's minutes note that the "Cortlands Manor" meeting had sustained itself for at least a year, and the following year formally extended it for another year.
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porch runs the length of the first story's south (front) facade at ground level; on the west end is a small shed-roofed clapboard-sided one-story one-bay addition.
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on which the meeting house, First Day school and cemetery are located is on the west side of Quaker Church Road, also at that point the boundary between the
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dividing American Quakers. In response to the growing fervor among evangelical Protestants in the country as a whole that has since come to be known as the
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The remaining members continued their activism, again writing the legislature in protest of its passage of legislation that lowered New York's
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Taking up most of the property is the meeting's cemetery, which contains many graves of its members from the earlier years, along with that of
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around a 1754 meeting house that remains in use. The Amawalk meeting seems to have gotten its start around 1760. Six years later, the
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later, the land that had been purchased to build a meeting house in Peekskill was sold, followed by the Salem property in 1891.
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converts. Activism continued; one member was imprisoned for 16 days in 1839 over his refusal to pay a "military demand" of $ 5.
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as the discipline requires". A footnote clarifies this, noting that five members had paid for substitutes to go into the
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to its east. It is located 0.3 miles (500 m) north of Quaker Church's southern end at Saw Mill River Road (also
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influence, also unusual for Quaker buildings. The addition of a porch later in the 19th century also brought in some
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at the time of his death, felt that a Quaker funeral would be a fitting tribute to Capa, a nonobservant Jew who had
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Topographically the area consists of small low hills with occasional narrow depressions, often filled by creeks or
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Quarterly Meeting, which oversaw Amawalk, he arranged for a Quaker service there. At the service, Capa's brother
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Four years after Amawalk closed, the Hicksites and Orthodox Quakers fully reconciled and ended the
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during the intervening years, was laid to rest alongside his brother. None of them were Quakers.
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Weeks, who died in 1805. Early markers are of sandstone, giving way to marble for later burials.
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stance of American Quakers; by the next year it reported that none of its members owned slaves.
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built by a Hicksite meeting. Also, its design shows some of influence of the contemporary
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building added when meetings resumed in the 1970s is non-contributing due to its newness.
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structure built in the 1830s. In 1989 it and its adjoining cemetery were listed on the
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The meeting engaged in social activism as well. In 1783 a member who had bought a
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reflects contemporary architectural trends, unusually for Quaker meeting houses.
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Many of the headstones reflect the Quaker virtue of simplicity and are devoid of
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of Amawalk, which still lends its name not just to the meeting house but to the
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Across Quaker Church are two houses on such lots. Behind them is a cleared
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as the traditional Quaker path to the divine but held it superior to the
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Ten years later the carpet in the interior was taken up and replaced by
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While the members remained politically and socially active, writing the
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That same year, the meeting had to make a choice between two sides in a
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cloakroom and privy. A belief that the building was a station on the
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With the new tolerance came a growth in Quaker meetings. Northern
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through his depictions of the horrors of war. As a member of the
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While the new house was being built, the Amawalk Quakers met in
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The First Day School building, west profile and north elevations
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building measuring 30 by 40 feet (9.1 by 12.2 m), with one
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after a century and a half. Along with the spiritual quests by
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was one of the hotbeds of that growth. Quakers established
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to be sent overseas and, afterwards, sponsored two of the
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In 1993, four years after the property was listed on the
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that connect its roof and the wooden support pillars, a
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magazine in London during the Normandy landings and at
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in their stead, and at least one had enlisted himself.
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Architecturally the meeting house shows some signs of
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
A two-story light yellow house with reddish trim, a pointed roof on the side, a small shed-roofed addition on the left and a porch along the front.
Amawalk Friends Meeting House is located in New York
Amawalk Friends Meeting House is located in the United States
Yorktown Heights, New York
Peekskill
41°17′32″N 73°46′18″W / 41.29222°N 73.77167°W / 41.29222; -73.77167
89002004
Yorktown Heights, New York
timber frame
National Register of Historic Places
Quakers
Westchester County
meeting house
Hicksite
schism
American Quakerism
Greek Revival
Victorian
Robert Capa
war photographer
Cornell
contributing resource
First Day School
lot
towns
Yorktown
Somers
U.S. Route 202
New York State Route 35

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