| 词条 | Bethesda Meeting House |
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| nrhp_type = | image = Bethesda Meetinghouse, Bethesda, MD.jpg | caption = Front elevation, 2008 | location= 9400 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, Maryland | coordinates = {{coord|39|0|35|N|77|5|54|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Maryland#USA | architect= | architecture= Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Other | added = July 17, 1978 | area = {{convert|0|acre}} | governing_body = Private | refnum = 78003557[1] }} The Bethesda Meeting House (BMH) is a historic Presbyterian church complex located at Bethesda, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA. Its name became the namesake of the entire surrounding community in the 1870s. It is situated on Maryland Route 355 (known as Rockville Pike at this point) just inside the Capital Beltway. DescriptionThe BMH property includes the 1850 meeting house itself, the mid-late 19th century parsonage to the south, and the associated cemetery. The church is a large, wood-frame structure built in the Greek Revival "temple" form, although it features Gothic-style windows throughout. To the south of the church is a two-story frame Victorian parsonage built on a cruciform plan, with some Queen Anne-style embellishments.[2] HistoryThe church was constructed on the foundation of an 1820 Presbyterian church which burned down in 1849. It served as the Bethesda Presbyterian Church from 1850 until 1925 when the congregation decided to erect a new church on Wilson Lane, farther south in Bethesda. When the church moved to its new location in 1925, the trustees sold the building and {{convert|7|acre}} of land to Mrs. May Fitch Kelley. The Presbyterian congregation, however, retained ownership of the cemetery.[2] Mrs. Kelley lived in the church building for many years. In 1945, the property was sold to a French Algerian Catholic missionary group called the Missionaries of Africa, commonly known as the White Fathers. In the 1950s, the property was transferred again, this time to the trustees of the Temple Hill Baptist Church.[2] Legacy
ReferencesCitations1. ^1 {{NRISref|version=2010a}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-421.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Bethesda Meeting House|date=August 1976|accessdate=2016-01-01 |author=Rev. and Mrs. William B. Allen and Michael Dwyer|publisher=Maryland Historical Trust}} 3. ^{{cite book | last = Offutt | first = William |author2=Sween, Jane | title = Montgomery County: Centuries of Change | publisher = American Historical Press | year = 1999 | pages = 161–162}} Other sources
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10 : Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland|Churches completed in 1850|19th-century Quaker meeting houses|Greek Revival church buildings in Maryland|Queen Anne architecture in Maryland|Buildings and structures in Bethesda, Maryland|Quaker meeting houses in Maryland|Churches in Montgomery County, Maryland|Presbyterian churches in Maryland|National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Maryland |
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