Twelfth Street Meetinghouse

  • Also Known As: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Western D

  • Address: 1690 Newtown Langhorne Rd
  • Vicinity: George School
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1812/00/00 Quakers Vocation Twelfth Street Meeting House is built on the west side of 12th St, south of Market Street, in Philadelphia using salvaged timbers from a 1755 meeting house.
1974/00/00 Dismantled and relocated to Newtown in 1972, Twelfth Street Meeting House is reconstructed as the meeting house for The George School, 1973-1974.

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Particulars for Twelfth Street Meetinghouse:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Criteria Historic Event
Level of Significance National
Owner Private
Cultural Affiliation Quakers
Area of Significance Religion
Historic Use Religious Property



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 74002334
Resource Type:
Owner: Private
Architect: unknown
Architectural Style: No style listed
Other Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Architecture, Religion
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Criteria Consideration: Religious property
Period of Significance: 1800-1824
Significant Year: 1812
Historic Function: Religion
Historic Sub-Function: Religious structure
Current Function: Religion
Current Sub-Function: Religious structure

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