{"nrhp_refnum":"02000473","name":"Jericho Friends Meeting House Complex","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6 Old Jericho Turnpike","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jericho","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.794477253000025,"lon":-73.53626643599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-05-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Quaker meeting house complex at 6 Old Jericho Turnpike in Jericho, Nassau County, New York, with the 1788 meeting house, an 1793 former schoolhouse, a shed (by 1875) and a cemetery, on about 3.5 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is a highly intact example of late 18th-century New England timber-frame building traditions and Quaker ideals of simplicity. The meeting house has been little altered in over two hundred years of use. It was also the home meeting of Elias Hicks, a prominent Quaker minister and opponent of slavery.","narrative":"Jericho's Quaker meeting complex sits on about 3.5 acres between the original and the modern Jericho Turnpike. Its centerpiece is a two-story, shingled, timber-frame meeting house completed in 1788, joined by an 1793 schoolhouse, a broad gabled shed with hand-hewn framing, and a burial ground with plain, low markers. Inside, the building is divided into men's and women's halves, with movable panels that open the two sides together for worship. Benches, galleries and trim are simply crafted, and wood stoves remain the only heat. A porch was added in 1818 and a porte cochere in the early twentieth century, but little else has changed. The complex was listed for its architecture, which reflects New England building practice and Quaker plainness, and for its link to Elias Hicks, a Jericho Friend who spoke and wrote against slavery and became a leading figure in the Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends. Its grassy grounds and mature trees preserve a rural feel amid heavy development.","period_of_significance":"1788-c1875","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Still in religious use as a meeting house and cemetery; the schoolhouse has been converted to a caretaker's residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.945634-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/02000473.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000473/b037fff30c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000473/b037fff30c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"DanTD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jericho_Friends_Meetinghouse-1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">DanTD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jericho_Friends_Meetinghouse-1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319131","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_Friends_Meeting_House_Complex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6182159"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/jericho-friends-meeting-house-complex-02000473/"}