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Definition of Conference house
1. Noun. A center where conferences can be conducted.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conference House
Literary usage of Conference house
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"Conference-House. A chapel for week-day religious worship, &c. Connecticut.
Conference-Meeting. An assembly in which prayer and exhortations are made; ..."
2. History of Utah: Comprising Preliminary Chapters on the Previous History of by Orson Ferguson Whitney (1904)
"On Saturday evening before conference the Anti- Mormon League held an opposition
meeting in the street ju>t in front of the conference house. ..."
3. History of Gorham, Me. by Hugh Davis McLellan (1902)
"... just south of the burying ground, where the old brick schoolhouse lately stood,
and converted it into a conference house for the use of his church. ..."
4. American State Papers Bearing on Sunday Legislation by William Addison Blakely, Willard Allen Colcord (1911)
"... went to conference, House non-concurring in Sunday-closing amendment (HR Report
2976) : went to second conference, House receding from non-concurrence, ..."
5. History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine: From Its First by Joseph Williamson (1877)
"One building only was offered likely to answer the purpose, and on such terms as
to meet the approbation of the Town ; viz., the conference house.2 A ..."
6. Diary of Sarah Connell Ayer: Andover and Newburyport, Massachusetts; Concord by Sarah Newman Connell Ayer (1910)
"Mr. Payson was too ill to go out, and as we had no Minister the Church met at
the new conference house. It was an interesting meeting. Monday. ..."
7. Preventive Treatment of Neglected Children by Hastings Hornell Hart (1910)
"CHAPTER XXVII CONCLUSIONS OF THE WHITE conference house A CONFERENCE on the Care
of Dependent Children was held in the city of Washington, January 25 and 26 ..."
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