Free Quaker Meetinghouse
Free Quaker Meetinghouse | |
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| Location | SW corner of 5th and Arch Sts. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 39°57′10″N 75°8′34″W / 39.95278°N 75.14278°W |
| Built | 1783 |
| NRHP reference No. | 71000063[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 22, 1971 |
The Free Quaker Meetinghouse is a historic Free Quaker meeting house at the southeast corner of 5th and Arch Streets in the Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1783, and is a plain 2 1⁄2-story brick building with a gable roof. The second floor was added in 1788. The building was moved about 30 feet to its present site in 1961, to allow for the widening of Fifth Street.
Quaker meetings were held in the building until 1836, after which it was occupied by the Apprentices' Library Company of Philadelphia until 1897.[2]
The meetinghouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.[1]
References
Notes
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Mary C. Means (June 1970). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Free Quaker Meetinghouse" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-06-16.
External links
- Visiting information
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-1120, "Free Quakers Meetinghouse, 500 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA", 11 photos, 23 measured drawings, 3 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
Categories:
- Churches in Philadelphia
- Quaker meeting houses in Pennsylvania
- Buildings and structures in Independence National Historical Park
- Churches completed in 1783
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia
- Relocated buildings and structures in Pennsylvania
- Historic American Buildings Survey in Philadelphia
- 18th-century architecture in the United States
- 18th-century Quaker meeting houses
- Federal architecture in Pennsylvania
- 1783 establishments in Pennsylvania