Caln Meeting House Explained

Caln Meeting House
Location:	901 Caln Meeting House Rd., near Coatesville, Caln Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates:	40.0072°N -75.7653°W
Built:	1726
Added:	May 03, 1984
Refnum:	84003182

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.^[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Services are still held weekly at the meeting house. A graveyard is also held on the northern end of the building, with another sitting on the other side of PA 340. 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.

Further reading

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

External links

• • Caln Friends Meeting House, Northeast corner of Kings Highway (Route 340) & Meetinghouse Road, Thorndale, Chester County, PA: 26 photos, 3 color transparencies, 3 measured drawings, 24 data pages, and 2 photo caption pages at Historic American Buildings Survey

Notes and References

1. Web site: National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania. CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Searchable database. 2012-11-13. 2007-07-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20070721014609/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp. dead. Note: This includes Web site: [{{NRHP-PA|H079665_01H.pdf}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Caln Meeting House]. 2012-10-30. Anne B. Stolar. PDF. January 1984.