Newton Friends' Meetinghouse is the home of an active meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, who meet in a historic
Quaker
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meeting house at 808 Cooper Street in
Camden
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,
Camden County,
New Jersey, United States.
It was built in 1824 as an extremely simple "Quaker clapboard" structure in the typically subdued style of
Quaker meeting houses. It was remodeled in 1885 by architect
Wilson Eyre, Jr. in the sometimes-extravagant
Queen Anne Revival
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style, though this expression of the style is still very subdued.
The meetinghouse was added to the
National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
See also
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References
External links
Photograph of the meetinghouseOfficial site
Quaker meeting houses in New Jersey
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey
Churches completed in 1824
Churches in Camden County, New Jersey
Buildings and structures in Camden, New Jersey
National Register of Historic Places in Camden County, New Jersey
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