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• Collection: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

• Title: Middletown Preparative Friends Meeting House, Middletown Road, 1 mile north of Pennell Road (Route 452), Lima, Delaware County, PA
• Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
• Related Names:
     Bowater, John
     Taylor, Israel
     Register, William
     Eachus, Virgil
     Yarnall, William
     Hoopes, Seth
     Sharpless, Nathan
     Passmore, Jesse
     Yarnall, Eli
     Sharpless, Thomas
     Worrall, John
     Hill, John
     Yarnall, Caleb
     Leonard, John Edwards
     Price, Virginia Barrett , transmitter
     Boucher, Jack E , photographer
     Lavoie, Catherine C , historian
     Larkin, Cleary , delineator
     McGrath, James , delineator
     Willard, Kelly , delineator
• Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
• Medium: Photo(s): 31
  Color Transparencies: 2
  Measured Drawing(s): 3
  Data Page(s): 16
  Photo Caption Page(s): 3
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
  
• Call Number: HABS PA-6655
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Significance: In 1888, the Middletown Preparative Meeting House was significantly altered for the second time in order to conform to changing patterns of meeting house development. Middletown Meeting House was begun as early as 1702 as a single-cell, three-bay, central entry structure typical of the rural meeting houses of the Delaware Valley during the early settlement period. During the 1790s, the building was doubled in size through the addition of a second apartment to better accommodate separate men's and women's business meetings. The resulting two-celled structure was in keeping with the newly established prototype for American Friends meeting house design which consisted of a six-bay-long structure with equally sized apartments for men and women, each with its own entryway. In the 1880s, the meeting house was reconfigured, creating a more church-like appearance and orientation. This last change reflects a tendency that began in the late nineteenth century within some Friends meeting to adopt elements of mainstream ecclesiastic architecture. Middletown is among the oldest Friends Meetings in what was originally Chester Quarter. An indulged meeting for worship began in the home of John Bowater in 1686. In 1700, the Middletown Friends purchased land with the intention of establishing a burial ground and building a meeting house. While much of the early structure has been obscured by the changes made during the late nineteenth century, evidence of its eighteenth-century appearance is clearly visible in the attic. The remnants of the early structure include a barrel-vaulted ceiling and one of its eighteenth-century windows.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N827
  • Survey number: HABS PA-6655
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1702 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1792- ca. 1797 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1888 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: after. 1950- before. 1960 Subsequent Work
• Subjects:
  • Friends meeting houses
  • stone buildings
  • Quakers
  • religious services
• Place:
  • Pennsylvania -- Delaware County -- Lima
• Latitude/Longitude: 39.91722, -75.44083000000001
• Collections:
  • Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
• Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: HABS PA-6655
• Medium: Photo(s): 31
  Color Transparencies: 2
  Measured Drawing(s): 3
  Data Page(s): 16
  Photo Caption Page(s): 3

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• Call Number: HABS PA-6655
• Medium: Photo(s): 31
  Color Transparencies: 2
  Measured Drawing(s): 3
  Data Page(s): 16
  Photo Caption Page(s): 3

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