Old Chappaqua Historic District is a national historic district

Historic district (United States)

In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided...

 located at Chappaqua

Chappaqua, New York

Chappaqua is a hamlet and census-designated place in northern Westchester County, New York. As of the 2010 census, following a major revision to the delineation of its boundaries by the Census Bureau, the population was 1,436...

, Westchester County, New York

Westchester County, New York

Westchester County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Westchester covers an area of and has a population of 949,113 according to the 2010 Census, residing in 45 municipalities...

. The district contains 12 contributing buildings clustered around the Quaker

Religious Society of Friends

The Religious Society of Friends, or Friends Church, is a Christian movement which stresses the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. Members are known as Friends, or popularly as Quakers. It is made of independent organisations, which have split from one another due to doctrinal differences...

 meeting house

Meeting house

A meeting house describes a building where a public meeting takes place. This includes secular buildings which function like a town or city hall, and buildings used for religious meetings, particularly of some non-conformist Christian denominations....

 (1753) and dated to the late-18th to early 19th century. In addition to the meeting house, the district includes the Reynolds-Carpenter Farmhouse and Sutton-Reynolds House, Samuel allen Farm, Stony Hollow Farmhouse, Thorn-Dodge House, and Thomas-Dodge House.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1974.