File:West Grove Friends Meeting House, 153 East Harmony Road, West Grove, Chester County, PA HABS PA-6228-11.tif

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(3,850 × 5,254 pixels, file size: 19.29 MB, MIME type: image/tiff)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

- West Grove Friends Meeting House, 153 East Harmony Road, West Grove, Chester County, PA
Title
- West Grove Friends Meeting House, 153 East Harmony Road, West Grove, Chester County, PA
Description
Moore, Truman C; McLeirnan, H S; Cavanagh, Thomas F; Johnson, William F; West Grove Brick Company; Moore, Adrian; S.R. Chambers and Brothers; C. B. Cole and Son Company; Reburn, William H; Porter, Edward; Price, Virginia B, transmitter; Lavoie, Catherine C, historian; Boucher, Jack E, photographer; Wunsch, Aaron V, historian; Barnard, H Christie, delineator; Arzola, Robert R, project manager
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Chester County; West Grove
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS PA-6228-11
Credit line
This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

Notes
  • Significance: Erected in 1903, West Grove Meeting House is an example of a meeting house type that became common within the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting during the early twentieth century. Friends held an organized meeting for worship at West Grove starting in 1786 and the present building replaced one that had stood on the exact same location since 1787. While the earlier meeting house at this site essentially replicated a form employed by Friends elsewhere since the second quarter of the eighteenth century, the 1903 structure represented a design solution being tested at the turn of the century after nearly a century of heterogeneity in meeting house architecture. Here schooling, social gathering and Quarterly Meeting were accommodated in a single construction phase rather than being housed in an addition or separate building as in years past. Now, too, the partition used to separate men's and women's meetings for business was omitted, though joint business meetings did not actually begin at West Grove until 1919. Built to accommodate Western Quarterly Meeting, West Grove arose during a wave of quarterly meeting house construction that, by 1911, had also reached Concord, Caln and Haddonfield Quarters. The innovations apparent in West Grove also surfaced in these buildings to greater or lesser degrees. Yet West Grove is significant for the continuity as well as the change it embodied. In accordance with traditional Quaker building practice, the structure was designed and constructed by meeting members, and incorporated many materials salvaged from the structure it replaced.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N822
  • Survey number: HABS PA-6228
  • Building/structure dates: 1903- 1904 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1975 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3605.photos.213101p
Permission
(Reusing this file)
Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current04:19, 1 August 2014Thumbnail for version as of 04:19, 1 August 20143,850 × 5,254 (19.29 MB)Fæ (talk | contribs)GWToolset: Creating mediafile for Fæ. HABS 31 July 2014 (3000:3200)

You cannot overwrite this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:West_Grove_Friends_Meeting_House,_153_East_Harmony_Road,_West_Grove,_Chester_County,_PA_HABS_PA-6228-11.tif&oldid=282444430"