{{Short description|Historic site in Providence County, Rhode Island, US}} {{More citations needed|date=November 2021}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Harmony Chapel and Cemetery | nrhp_type = | image = Harmony Chapel Rhode Island.JPG | caption = | location = Harmony, Rhode Island | coordinates = {{coord|41|53|20|N|71|36|01|W|display=inline,title|source:GNIS}}<!-- GNIS cemetery coords used --> | locmapin = Rhode Island#USA | area = {{convert|2|acre|ha}} | architect = | architecture = Federal | added = June 25, 1980 | refnum = 80000098 <ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2007a}}</ref> }}
The '''Harmony Chapel and Cemetery''' (also known as "Harmony Meeting House" or "Harmony Cemetery") are a historic church and cemetery in Harmony, Rhode Island, a village in Glocester.
==Overview== The wood-frame chapel adjacent to the cemetery sits on US Route 44 west of Edgewood Drive. Built as a schoolhouse in c. 1830, it is one of the few Federal-style schoolhouses to survive in the state, and is probably the best-preserved of that period. It was later (by 1870) converted for use as a meeting house (free chapel) for villagers.<ref name=NRHP>{{cite web|url=http://www.preservation.ri.gov/pdfs_zips_downloads/national_pdfs/glocester/glos_putnam-pike_harmony-chapel-cemetery.pdf|title=NRHP nomination for Harmony Chapel and Cemetery|publisher=Rhode Island Preservation|accessdate=2014-09-16}}</ref> Residents would occasionally hire ministers to speak and hold various Christian religious ceremonies.
The cemetery behind the chapel was used as a private cemetery by the Steere, Smith and other local families until opened for public use in 1878.
thumb|left|Harmony Chapel and Cemetery, c. 1905
== See also == {{Portal|Rhode Island}} {{Commons category}} * National Register of Historic Places in Providence County, Rhode Island
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.friendsofharmony.org/ Friends of Harmony Village information and pictures of the chapel] * [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rigenweb/article241.html Harmony and Glocester Historical Information] * {{Find a Grave cemetery}} * {{GNIS|type=retired|1903603|Harmony Cemetery}}<!-- These are the coords in the infobox --> * {{GNIS|type=retired|1903604|Harmony Chapel}}
{{NRHP in Providence County, Rhode Island}}
Category:Churches completed in 1816 Category:Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island Category:Churches in Providence County, Rhode Island Category:Chapels in the United States Category:Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island Category:Buildings and structures in Glocester, Rhode Island Category:National Register of Historic Places in Providence County, Rhode Island Category:1816 establishments in Rhode Island