Caln Meeting House
Caln Meeting House | |
![]() Caln Meeting House, HABS Photo | |
40°0′26″N 75°45′55″W / 40.00722°N 75.76528°W / 40.00722; -75.76528 | |
Area | 4 acres (1.6 ha) |
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Built | 1726 |
NRHP reference No. | 84003182[1] |
Added to NRHP | May 03, 1984 |
Caln Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house located at 901 Caln Meeting House Road, near Coatesville in Caln Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1726, and is a one-story, tan fieldstone structure. It was enlarged to its present size in 1801.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1] Services are still held weekly at the meeting house. A graveyard is also held on the northern end of the building, with another sitting on the other side of PA 340.
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One third of the Caln Meeting House is used by the Old Caln Historical Society as a local history museum and to house archives, artifacts and other historical memorabilia.
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". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2012-11-13. Note: This includes Anne B. Stolar (January 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Caln Meeting House" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-10-30.
Further reading
Brown, Francis G. (2001). Old Caln Meeting House, Its Story. Glenmoore, Pennsylvania: Glenmoore Corporation. p. 73.
External links
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- Official website
- Caln Friends Meeting House, Northeast corner of Kings Highway (Route 340) & Meetinghouse Road, Thorndale, Chester County, PA: 26 photos, 3 color transparencies, 3 measured drawings, 24 data pages, and 2 photo caption pages at Historic American Buildings Survey
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