Caln Meeting House

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Caln Meeting House
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Location901 Caln Meeting House Rd., near Coatesville, Caln Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°0′26″N75°45′55″W / 40.00722°N 75.76528°W / 40.00722; -75.76528
Area4 acres (1.6 ha)
Built1726
NRHP reference No. 84003182 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 03, 1984

Caln Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house located at 901 Caln Meeting House Road, near Coatesville in Caln Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1726, and is a one-story, tan fieldstone structure. It was enlarged to its present size in 1801. [2]

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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1] The meeting house is open occasionally for museum events. A graveyard is also held on the northern end of the building, with another sitting on the other side of PA 340.

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Meeting House in 2020.

One third of the Caln Meeting House is used by the Old Caln Historical Society as a local history museum and to house archives, artifacts and other historical memorabilia.

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ↑ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on July 21, 2007. Retrieved November 13, 2012.Note: This includes Anne B. Stolar (January 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Caln Meeting House" (PDF). Retrieved October 30, 2012.

Further reading

Brown, Francis G. (2001). Old Caln Meeting House, Its Story. Glenmoore, Pennsylvania: Glenmoore Corporation. p. 73.

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