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[a] The Merion Friends Meeting House is the only surviving meeting house constructed before 1700. [3] Thirty-two surviving Pennsylvania meeting houses were constructed before 1800, and are listed individually on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) or as contributing properties in historic districts. [4]
Pennsylvania See also Friends meeting houses in Pennsylvania. Abington Friends Meeting House, Jenkintown, Montgomery County [9]: 369–71 Arch Street Friends Meeting House, Philadelphia; Birmingham Friends Meetinghouse, Birmingham Township, Chester County; Buckingham Friends Meeting House, Buckingham Township, Bucks County, NRHP-listed
The Buckingham Friends Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house at 5684 Lower York Road (U.S. Route 202) in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Built in 1768 in a "doubled" style, it is nationally significant as a model for many subsequent Friends Meeting Houses. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2003. [3] [4]
The Arch Street Meeting House, at 320 Arch Street at the corner of 4th Street in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Built to reflect Friends' testimonies of simplicity and equality, this building is little changed after more than two centuries of continuous use.
The Merion Friends Meeting House is an active and historic Quaker meeting house at 615 Montgomery Avenue in Merion Station, Pennsylvania.Completed about 1715, it is the second oldest Friends meeting house in the United States (after the Third Haven Meeting House in Maryland), with distinctively Welsh architectural features that distinguish it from later meeting houses.
Though log meeting houses were commonly built by Pennsylvania Quakers during the early period of settlement, they were usually replaced quickly by stone, brick or frame construction. The meeting house is divided into two unequally sized meeting rooms, one for the men’s business meeting and worship, the other for the women’s business meeting.
Chester Friends Meetinghouse is a Quaker meeting house at 520 East 24th Street in Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The first recorded meeting of Friends in the province of Pennsylvania was in Chester at the house of Robert Wade in 1675. [1] William Edmundson, the founder of Quakerism in Ireland was present at the first ...
The Wrightstown Friends Meeting Complex is an historic, American Quaker meeting house that is located on PA 413 in Wrightstown, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register in 1975. History and notable features