The Clear Creek Meeting House is a

Friends meeting house A Friends meeting house is a meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), where meeting for worship is usually held. Typically, Friends meeting houses are simple and resemble local residential buildings. Steeples, spires, and ...

located at 14365 N. 350th Ave., southeast of McNabb, in

Magnolia Township, Putnam County, Illinois Magnolia Township is located in Putnam County, Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro ...

. The meeting house was built in 1875 to house the Illinois Yearly Meeting of the

Religious Society of Friends Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belief in each human's abili ...

, also known as the Quakers. The Yearly Meeting was the westernmost annual meeting of the Hicksite Friends and attracted followers from several states. The meeting house also hosted the Clear Creek Monthly Meeting, which was attended by local Quakers. The building is typical of American Friends meeting houses; it features two square rooms with plain features both outside and inside. The lack of ornamentation was designed to reflect the Quaker tenet of simplicity. The meeting house is one of the few surviving western Quaker meeting houses which represent this tradition of Quaker architecture.Davidson, Hugh. ''National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Clear Creek Meeting House''.

National Park Service The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages all national parks, most national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational propertie ...

, 1992-04. The meeting house was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

on November 5, 1992.

References

Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois Churches completed in 1874 Buildings and structures in Putnam County, Illinois Quaker meeting houses in Illinois 19th-century Quaker meeting houses National Register of Historic Places in Putnam County, Illinois {{PutnamCountyIL-NRHP-stub

See also

References