Quaker Meeting House
From Salem Links and Lore
Quaker Meeting House sits in the Federal Garden area in the Phillips Library Neighborhood. Some of the other buildings in the Federal Garden area are the Lye-Tapley Shoe Shop and the John Ward House.
The first Quaker Meeting House was built around 1688. The current building, erected in 1865 to resemble a Post-Medieval or First Period structure, is a reconstruction of the Quaker Meeting House and may contain some of the original timber framing. It is a very early example of an architectural re-creation.
In 1865, the museum reconstructed the Quaker Meeting House from beams thought to be original to the First Church.
See Also
Essex Institute Historical Collection Vol. 39, p.267-293
