Summary
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]
Caln Meeting House | |
 Caln Meeting House, HABS Photo | |
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| Location | 901 Caln Meeting House Rd., near Coatesville, Caln Township, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 40°0′26″N 75°45′55″W / 40.00722°N 75.76528°W |
| Area | 4 acres (1.6 ha) |
| Built | 1726 |
| NRHP reference No. | 84003182[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 03, 1984 |
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.
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 edit
- ^ 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 edit
Brown, Francis G. (2001). Old Caln Meeting House, Its Story. Glenmoore, Pennsylvania: Glenmoore Corporation. p. 73.
External links edit
- 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