Park Hill Meeting House National Register Nomination
Information: The Park Hill Meeting House is a two-story
rectangular wooden building with a gable roof, a square tower on
the front (south) elevation, and a shallow entrance portico. The
facade of the building is five bays wide, and the middle three
bays are embraced by the portico. Supported on two pairs of
attenuated and unfluted columns set at the right and left
extremities of the entablature, this portico has a Doric frieze,
a delicately moulded cornice, and a triangular pediment with a
pitch equal to that of the roof of the main building. Each
triglyph in the portico frieze has a row of drilled holes along
its upper edge, just above the glyphs, in addition to the usual
guttae along the bottom. The raking cornices of both the
pediment and the main building have narrow friezes enriched with
an applied guilloche. The flush-boarded tympanum has an
elliptical window with radiating tracery, embellished with an
enframement of applied window foliage. Beneath th