The Wrightstown Friends Meeting Complex is an historic, American Quaker meeting house that is located on PA 413 in Wrightstown, Pennsylvania.
Wrightstown Friends Meeting Complex | |
 Wrightstown Friends Meeting House. October 2012. | |
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| Location | PA 413, Wrightstown, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 40°15′55″N 74°59′0″W / 40.26528°N 74.98333°W |
| Area | 14.7 acres (5.9 ha) |
| Built | 1787 |
| NRHP reference No. | 75001624[1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 29, 1975 |
It was added to the National Register in 1975.
History and notable features
editQuaker activity in Wrightstown dates back to at least 1685. A log meetinghouse was built on the present site in 1708 and expanded in 1735 and 1737. A stone wall from the 1737 expansion was increased in height to two stories in 1787, as the present meetinghouse was built immediately to the north of the old meetinghouse.
Edward Hicks, painter of The Peaceable Kingdom, attended services at this meetinghouse from 1814 to 1820.[2]
This meetinghouse was added to the National Register in 1975.
References
edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Atkinson, Esther W.; Harvey Freedenberg (1973). "Wrightstown Friends Meeting Complex" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places nomination form. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
External links
edit- Wrightstown Friends Meeting
- RECORDS OF WRIGHTSTOWN MONTHLY MEETING (WRIGHTSTOWN, PA.) available on microfilm at Swarthmore College and Haverford College libraries.