File:Buckingham Friends Meeting House, 5684 York Road, Lahaska, Bucks County, PA HABS PA-6224-14.tif

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- Buckingham Friends Meeting House, 5684 York Road, Lahaska, Bucks County, PA
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- Buckingham Friends Meeting House, 5684 York Road, Lahaska, Bucks County, PA
Description
Hutchinson, Mathias; Good, Edward; Smith, Thomas; Ellicott, Joseph; Price, Virginia B, transmitter; Boucher, Jack E, photographer; Lavoie, Catherine C, historian; Howell, Pamela, delineator; Arzola, Robert R, project manager
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Bucks County; Lahaska
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
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HABS PA-6224-14
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  • Significance: Completed in 1768, Buckingham Friends Meeting House is the earliest known example of the doubled type that became a conventional form for American Friends meeting hoses for nearly a century. While earlier meeting houses varied greatly in style, in form they appeared externally as a single-cell structure. These buildings were either partitioned into two unequally sized apartments or had a smaller structure appended to accommodate separate men's and women's business meetings. This plan conformed to the old English program whereby men and women met together only for worship and separated to conduct gender specific business meetings. Buckingham's symmetrical, two-cell form contained equal apartments. The design expressed a programmatic change. In contrast to the early style of meeting, men and women met on separate sides of the partition, which was open for worship and closed for business. The wide array of meeting house forms erected prior to Buckingham reflects the somewhat dynamic nature of meeting program and meeting house design before the later eighteenth century. Working through various alternatives to develop a building that best suited their silent worship and democratic form of self rule, Buckingham posed a logical solution. The vast majority of meeting hoses erected in the Delaware Valley during the decades to follow adopted the new form. Although attributed largely to the Quaker belief in the equality of the sexes, the standardization of meeting house design also coincided with important movements in Quaker history such as "Quietism" and spiritual reform. During this time period the Friends, through the leadership of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, directed the further rejection of the non-Quaker world and demanded stricter adherence to their doctrine. Quaker discipline is re-written and further codified to create a more cohesive program that may have encouraged the development of a uniform meeting house design. Despite moves to uphold tenets of simplicity, Buckingham Meeting House's use of the popular Georgian-style of architecture reflects contemporary tastes and thus the "worldliness" of the Buckingham Friends. While the aesthetic emphasis on symmetry lent itself to the new meeting house design, the sophistication of its Georgian styling reflected the affluence of the Buckingham Quakers. From an architectural standpoint, Buckingham is among the most finely articulated meeting houses in the Delaware Valley. For nearly three hundred years, this site has served as the focal point for the religious, social and educational activities of Buckingham Friends. The current 1768 meeting house is the fourth on this site. The first house was erected between 1705 and 1708 by English Quakers who were some of the earliest settlers to the southern portion of Bucks County.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N818
  • Survey number: HABS PA-6224
  • Building/structure dates: 1767- 1768 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1935 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3601.photos.212991p
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Object location40° 20′ 47″ N, 75° 01′ 54.98″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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