File:Old Kennett Meeting House, U.S. Route 1, 1 mile North of Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Chester County, PA HABS PA,15-KENSQ.V,4-18.tif

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- Old Kennett Meeting House, U.S. Route 1, 1 mile North of Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Chester County, PA
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- Old Kennett Meeting House, U.S. Route 1, 1 mile North of Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Chester County, PA
Description
Price, Virginia Barrett, transmitter; University of Delaware, Center for Historic Architecture and Design, sponsor; Herman, Bernie, faculty sponsor; Hayden, Philip, delineator; Lavoie, Catherine C, historian; Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Chester County; Kennett Square
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,15-KENSQ.V,4-18
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  • 1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention
  • Significance: Old Kennett is one of the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected sometime between 1718 and 1731. Its single-cell, central-entry exterior form was typical of the meeting house plans of the early settlement period. At some later date, however, the window and doorway openings and roof structure were altered, and the interior of the meeting house was re-configured in order to support the equally sized apartments for men's and women's business that was indicative of the "doubled" or two-cell form that became the standard for meeting house design in the Delaware Valley by the late eighteenth century. Among the evidence for the relocation of the partition is its somewhat awkward mounting on the post that separates its two doors of the front entry. This and other modifications were made in the effort to adapt an earlier building to the changing American Friends Program. Despite some reconfiguration of the meeting house, it is of exceptional overall integrity and includes many noteworthy eighteenth-century features of Quaker meeting house architecture including pegged floors, paneled partitions, facing benches, and simple turned posts and carved newels. The structure has been largely unused for the past century and remains in rustic condition, without central heating, plumbing or electricity.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N334
  • Survey number: HABS PA-6230
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1718- ca. 1731 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1927 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3607.photos.205508p
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