{"nrhp_refnum":"73001622","name":"Chichester Friends Meetinghouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"611 Meetinghouse Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boothwyn","county":"Delaware County","state":"PA","lat":39.83649636000007,"lon":-75.43102834799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-03-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Religion"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rectangular stone Quaker meetinghouse with a small stone outbuilding in the southeast corner, located in Boothwyn, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It is the meetinghouse of Chichester Meeting.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the building is a typical eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Quaker house of worship, with an interior partition separating male and female congregations. It is described as virtually unchanged since the late eighteenth century, with original doors, hardware and interior furnishings, and it is linked to Quaker meeting history dating from 1684.","narrative":"Stone meetinghouse at Boothwyn, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, built in 1769 after an earlier meeting house burned in December 1768. The rectangular building has three bays on its east, west and north sides, a porch over the east entrance, and a datestone inscribed \"B=D 1769\" above the north door. Its nail-studded doors retain their original hardware, and the north door bears bullet holes from British foraging parties who fired on the closed doors in September 1777. Inside, vertical pine panelling surrounds the room, and a partition separates the men's and women's sections. Chichester Meeting was established as a Monthly Meeting in 1684, and in 1688 James Browne conveyed two acres of land to trustees for Quaker use. The building is valued as a typical example of an eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Quaker house of worship, and it remains very close to its late eighteenth-century appearance. A small stone outhouse, now a woodshed, stands in the southeast corner.","period_of_significance":"1769","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"In excellent condition on both the exterior and interior and well cared for; the carriage shed has been restored.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:28.911919-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/73001622.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001622/21a972ce56-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001622/21a972ce56-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones (talk) 14:15, 25 October 2009 (UTC).","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:QuakerMeetinghouse.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones (talk) 14:15, 25 October 2009 (UTC).</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:QuakerMeetinghouse.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994720","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichester_Friends_Meetinghouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5095999"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/delaware-county/chichester-friends-meetinghouse-73001622/"}