Saylesville Preparative Meeting
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     The best-preserved portion of the Meeting House is its frame, reflecting the manner of early New England buildings. The main building is a two story rectangle measuring about 39 by 29 feet.


     Clapboards cover the Meeting House. On the north, the clapboards are six inches wide. On the other walls, the "feathered" clapboards range from two to four inches wide and are believed to date from the 1745 addition.
     The original door, now covered by clapboards, faced the road to the east, although the entrance now faces south. the five-panel door is Victorian-era. For its first year or so, the Meeting House lacked glass windows. Much of the glass, though undated, is quite old.

     In keeping with the Quaker traditions of simplicty and inconspicous houses of worship, there is no steeple.
 
Walk cheerfully over the earth answering that of God in every person.
George Fox
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