The Woodbury Friends' Meetinghouse is located at 120 North Broad Street in the city of Woodbury in

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, United States. The

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. Ornamentation, spires, a ...

was built in 1715 and was documented by the

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(HABS) in 1936. It was added to the

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on February 6, 1973, for its significance in architecture and religion. With

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The western side of the meetinghouse was built in 1715 and the eastern side in 1785. The two-story building is constructed using red brick, with

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and glazed brick on the western side. It was used by the

Quakers Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestantism, Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations. Members refer to each other as Friends after in the Bible, and originally ...

in the Woodbury area, including the Whitall family. During the

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, it was used as a barracks by the British Army and as a hospital after the

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in 1777.

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