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- Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Township, Marshallton, Chester County, PA
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Marshall, Humphrey; ORR Painter and Company; Buffington, Curtis; Price, Virginia Barrett, transmitter; Wunsch, Aaron V, project manager; Lavoie, Catherine C, project manager; Arzola, Robert R, project manager; University of Delaware, Center for Historic Architecture and Design, sponsor; Herman, Bernie, faculty sponsor; Wunsch, Aaron V, historian; Lavoie, Catherine C, historian; Boucher, Jack E, photographer; Marsh, Sherri M, delineator; Northmore, Lenis H, delineator; Goode, Ned, photographer; Anderson, Bart, historian
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- Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Township, Marshallton, Chester County, PA
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Chester County; Marshallton
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
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HABS PA,15-MARSH,3-28
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  • 1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry
  • Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely paralleled that of English meeting houses than the emerging American Friends forms. Bradford's design is a melding of English and early colonial-period American meeting house types. Its (original) interior plan was like the typical English meeting house, with a larger apartment and facing bench at one end, partitioned off from a secondary apartment for business meetings. The exterior of Bradford Meeting House, however, resembles the single-celled, three-bay wide, central entry meeting house of the period of early settlement. Bradford is vernacular in design and erected of indigenous rubble stone. The precision stonework and fine galleting, however, are the marks of a highly skilled mason. Bradford Meeting House is also of interest for its peculiar, partitioned rear section. This small section likely was created to enable the building to conform the the size of any meeting thereby facilitating the sense of a close-knit community. The partition could be lower to create a more intimate space for use by the preparative meeting, and raised to accommodate the increased capacity of the monthly meeting. It also may have provided space for committee meetings. Bradford Meeting House is in almost pristine condition. It has received no modern additions or renovations, and is still without central heat, electricity or plumbing.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N430
  • Survey number: HABS PA-1105
  • Building/structure dates: 1767 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1776 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1788 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa0292.photos.205544p
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Object location39° 56′ 58.99″ N, 75° 40′ 50.02″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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