Radnor Friends Meetinghouse
Radnor Friends Meetinghouse | |
Location | Sproul and Conestoga Rds., Ithan, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | 40°1′48″N 75°21′53″W / 40.03000°N 75.36472°W |
Area | 0.1 acres (0.040 ha) |
Built | 1717 |
NRHP reference No. | 78002393[1] |
Added to NRHP | August 31, 1978 |
Radnor Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house on Sproul and Conestoga Roads in Ithan, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
The current meeting house was built in 1717 with an addition made several years later. An earlier meeting house may have existed on the site as early as 1693. During the Revolutionary War, the meeting house was used as an outpost for General George Washington's Continental Army.[2]
The meeting house added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]
Worship services are held weekly at 10am.
See also
References
- ^ 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 Elisabeth Donaghy and Bud Wolf (May 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Radnor Friends Meetinghouse" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-06.
External links
Media related to Radnor Friends Meetinghouse at Wikimedia Commons
- Radnor Monthly Meeting History
- Radnor Friends Meeting House, Southwest corner of Sproul & Conestoga Roads, Ithan, Delaware County, PA: 20 photos, 2 color transparencies, 4 measured drawings, 19 data pages, and 2 photo caption pages at Historic American Buildings Survey
Categories:
- Quaker meeting houses in Pennsylvania
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Churches completed in 1717
- 18th-century Quaker meeting houses
- Churches in Delaware County, Pennsylvania
- National Register of Historic Places in Delaware County, Pennsylvania
- 1717 establishments in Pennsylvania
- Delaware County, Pennsylvania Registered Historic Place stubs
- Pennsylvania church stubs