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- Amawalk_Friends_Meeting_House abstract "Amawalk Friends Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house at 2467 Quaker Church Road in Yorktown Heights, Westchester County, New York. It was is the third meetinghouse built on the property; the previous two were destroyed by fire. Built in 1831, it is a two story, rectangular wood frame building measuring 30 feet by 40 feet. It rests on a fieldstone foundation and there is a single brick chimney in the center of the slate covered gable roof.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.Friends have been gathering for worship at Amawalk since the mid-1760′s.By 1772, the Meeting at Amawalk had grown sufficiently that it requested permission from Purchase to build a Meeting House, completed in 1773. Preparative Meeting status was granted in 1774, and a Monthly Meeting set up in 1798. By 1828, Amawalk had under its care five Preparative Meetings: Amawalk, Peach Pond, Salem-Bedford, Peekskill and Croton.Orthodox-Hicksite tensions led to a split in the Meeting and a number of members left, eventually building an Orthodox Meeting House in Yorktown. Membership in Amawalk and its preparative meetings indicates 74 families in the mid-1830 ‘s, the current Meeting House was built in 1831 (after two previous buildings had burned down). By the mid-1840 ‘s, however, membership had begun to decline. In 5th month 1883, it was proposed that the preparative meetings be discontinued and the members attached to Amawalk. Membership continued to decline and between 1964 and 1977 Amawalk Meeting House was closed.In 1977, a small group began meeting each First Day and a resurgence in the life of the Meeting began. A First Day School building was completed in 1987. That same year, Amawalk became a monthly meeting again. In the fall of 1989, the Amawalk Friends Meeting House and Burial Ground were placed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Shortly thereafter, the Meeting House was renovated although it still retains the original wood stoves and oil lamps.Amawalk Meeting continues today with a small but dedicated group of Members and Attenders. Friends meet each First Day and continue to be active in the Meeting, the community and the Society.Robert (born Endre Ernő Friedmann, October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) and Cornell Capa (born Kornél Friedmann, April 10, 1918 – May 23, 2008), their mother and Edie Capa, Cornell's wife, plus their biographer Richard Whelan, are buried in the Amawalk Burial Ground.".
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