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Quaker Meeting-house (New York City)

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The Quaker Meeting-house on Hester and Elizabeth Streets, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, was a meetinghouse for the Religious Society of Friends, built in 1818. Recorded in 1876 by the New York Express that it “has for a long time been the office of the New York Gas Light Company,” now Consolidated Edison. It was presumed demolished.

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Hester Street, New York Manhattan

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Hester Street 146
10013 New York, Manhattan
New York, United States
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