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Beaver Meadow Union Chapel

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the front, with an open belfry capped by a pyramidal roof. The main facade has an unadorned entrance at the center, with simply framed sash windows on either side, and above in the belfry. A kitchen ell extends to the left of the main building. The interior retains many of its original finishes and furnishings.
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The Beaver Meadow Union Chapel stands on the north side of Beaver Meadow Road, just west of the crossroads village of West Norwich. It is a simple single-story wood-frame structure, with a steeply pitched gable roof, clapboard siding, and stone foundation. A square tower rises from the roof near
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schoolteacher who agitated for its construction after a drunken brawl occurred in front of her home. The site on which it was built originally had a Methodist church on it; it had been moved to
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The church was built in 1915 at the instigation of Margaret Kerr. She was a
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Windsor County, Vermont
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Windsor County, Vermont
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program, essentially a mail-order ministry inspired by the catalogs of
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National Register of Historic Places in Windsor County, Vermont
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Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont
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Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Beaver Meadow Union Chapel is located in Vermont
Beaver Meadow Union Chapel is located in the United States
Norwich, Vermont
43°45′52″N 72°22′27″W / 43.76444°N 72.37417°W / 43.76444; -72.37417
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Norwich, Vermont
Home Prayers
Sears, Roebuck
National Register of Historic Places
New York City
Sharon
Hanover, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places listings in Windsor County, Vermont


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Calvin Coolidge Homestead District

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