File:Sadsbury Friends Meeting House, Simmontown Road, .25 mile east of Route 41 intersection, Christiana, Lancaster County, PA HABS PA-6651-16.tif

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- Sadsbury Friends Meeting House, Simmontown Road, .25 mile east of Route 41 intersection, Christiana, Lancaster County, PA
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- Sadsbury Friends Meeting House, Simmontown Road, .25 mile east of Route 41 intersection, Christiana, Lancaster County, PA
Description
Lavoie, Catherine C, project manager; Price, Virginia Barrett, transmitter; Boucher, Jack E, photographer; Price, Virginia Barrett, historian; White, John P, delineator; Willard, Kelly, delineator; Iemilescu, Irina Madlina, delineator; McGrath, James, delineator; Schweitzer, Elaine, delineator; Arzola, Robert R, project manager
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Lancaster County; Christiana
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
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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-6651-16
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  • Significance: Among the earliest extant meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, Sadsbury is a rare example of an early meeting house form. Sadsbury's square shaped plan and three-by-three bay elevations with centrally located entries on the southeast and southwest resemble those meeting houses built in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Philadelphia. Of those, the most is known about the 1703 structure, the Second Bank Meeting House, the appearance of which survives in a sketch. Like the Second Bank Meeting House, Sadsbury has entries on contiguous sides and is capped by a hipped roof. Coupled with the use of dual entries, the unequally partitioned interior of Sadsbury suggests that the Sadsbury Friends followed the English format for worship when they designed and erected their meeting house in 1747. In England, and during the early settlement period in the Delaware Valley, both men and women Quakers met together in the larger of the rooms for worship. They then separated into different spaces for the business portion of the meeting. The logistical effects of the English program, as seen in Sadsbury, are manifested architecturally in the two front elevations as well as in the position of the partition, the facing benches, and the gallery. Today, however, the facing benches have been relocated and the gallery is gone for it burned as early as 1764. Evidence of the gallery is seen in the attic space.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N823
  • Survey number: HABS PA-6651
  • Building/structure dates: 1747 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1903 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1973 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3799.photos.213123p
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