Wrightstown Friends Meeting Complex Explained

Wrightstown Friends Meeting Complex
Nrhp Type:	nrhp
Location:	PA 413, Wrightstown, Pennsylvania
Coordinates:	40.2653°N -74.9833°W
Built:	1787
Added:	October 29, 1975
Refnum:	75001624

The Wrightstown Friends Meeting Complex is an historic, American Quaker meeting house that is located on PA 413 in Wrightstown, Pennsylvania.

It was added to the National Register in 1975.

History and notable features

Quaker activity in Wrightstown dates back to at least 1685. A log meetinghouse was built on the present site in 1708 and expanded in 1735 and 1737. A stone wall from the 1737 expansion was increased in height to two stories in 1787, as the present meetinghouse was built immediately to the north of the old meetinghouse.

Edward Hicks, painter of The Peaceable Kingdom, attended services at this meetinghouse from 1814 to 1820.^[1]

This meetinghouse was added to the National Register in 1975.

External links

• Wrightstown Friends Meeting
  • Wrightstown Friends Nursery School
• RECORDS OF WRIGHTSTOWN MONTHLY MEETING (WRIGHTSTOWN, PA.) available on microfilm at Swarthmore College and Haverford College libraries.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Atkinson. Esther W.. [{{NRHP-PA|H001714_01H.pdf}} Wrightstown Friends Meeting Complex]. National Register of Historic Places nomination form. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. December 16, 2013. Harvey Freedenberg . 1973.