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sheltered stairs to the gallery level. The bell tower was added in 1825, and the gallery level was filled out in 1848. In 1867 the building underwent major alterations: it was rotated ninety degrees and raised two feet, a vestibule was built, and the belltower placed atop it. These alterations transformed the previously Federal-style building into one that resembles a more typical Greek Revival structure. A clock manufactured by
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The meeting house was built in 1795; its frame and exterior were built by Hugh Gregg, but the joiners of its original interior finishes are not known. The building's evolutionary construction history gives a distinctive window into changes in taste and usage of meeting houses over time. Its initial
237:. The two-story wood-frame building was built in 1795; it is one of a small number of 18th century meeting houses in New Hampshire, and is believed to be the oldest still used for both religious and secular purposes, hosting both church services and town functions. The building was listed on the 249:
The Greenfield Meeting House is located on a rise overlooking the village center of Greenfield, on the north side of Forest Road between Sawmill and Francestown Roads. When originally built, it was roughly square, with a gallery instead of full second floor, and porches at the gable ends that
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form was one that was quite common in the surrounding hill towns, and the 1825 addition of a bell tower was a nod to the growing trend towards towers on religious buildings. The 1848 separation of civic and religious areas was the town's solution to state-mandated
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Greenfield Meeting House is located in New Hampshire
Greenfield Meeting House is located in the United States
Greenfield, New Hampshire
42°57′3″N 71°52′21″W / 42.95083°N 71.87250°W / 42.95083; -71.87250
Greek Revival
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meeting house
Greenfield, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places
E. Howard & Co.
separation of church and state
box pews
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
New Hampshire Historical Marker No. 130


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service


"NRHP nomination for Greenfield Meeting House"
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National Register of Historic Places
Hillsborough County, New Hampshire

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