Pipe_Creek_Friends_Meetinghouse

Pipe Creek Friends Meetinghouse

Pipe Creek Friends Meetinghouse

Historic church in Maryland, United States

Pipe Creek Friends Meetinghouse is an historic Friends meeting house located at Union Bridge, Carroll County, Maryland, United States. It is a 1+1⁄2-story brick structure in Flemish bond on a stone foundation. The meetinghouse was begun in 1771 and completed the next year. A fire in October 1934 destroyed the interior, but the original benches were saved. The founders of the meetinghouse were immigrants from the north of Ireland. It was the Quaker meetinghouse attended by a great-grandfather of President Herbert Hoover.[2]

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The Pipe Creek Friends Meetinghouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[1]

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  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [2]
    Joseph M. Getty (January 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pipe Creek Friends Meetinghouse" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.


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