{"nrhp_refnum":"73001645","name":"Klein Meetinghouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Maple Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Harleysville","county":"Montgomery County","state":"PA","lat":40.292153373000076,"lon":-75.37575034699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Klein Meeting House is a one-story frame meetinghouse on Maple Avenue in Harleysville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, set on a rise near a highway. It is associated with an adjacent cemetery.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the meetinghouse is important to American religious history through its connection with the Anabaptist tradition, specifically the Dunkard (Brethren) congregation of Indian Creek. It is presented as a typical example of the smaller meetinghouses of Pennsylvania German sects in the nineteenth century. The adjacent cemetery is associated with early Dunkards, including Peter Becker.","narrative":"A one-story frame meetinghouse on Maple Avenue in Harleysville, Pennsylvania, Klein Meeting House was built in 1843 by the Indian Creek congregation of the Dunkards, later the Church of the Brethren. It served as a preaching place for members who lived in the outlying part of the district and could not regularly attend the main meeting, though they still travelled to Indian Creek twice yearly for communion. The building is clapboard-sheathed with a shingled roof and has two entrances in the facade, one for men and a slightly narrower one for women. Its interior has a solid turned central post, a feature common to Anabaptist meetinghouses of the period. The stone foundation incorporates fragments of marble tombstones, and the adjacent cemetery holds graves of early Dunkards, including Peter Becker. The building is listed for its association with the Anabaptist tradition and as a typical small meetinghouse of the Pennsylvania German sects.","period_of_significance":"1843","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Unoccupied and in rather poor condition at the time of nomination.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.844611-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/73001645.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001645/f0ead98e3b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001645/f0ead98e3b-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Klien_Meetinhouse_Montco_PA_Mennon.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Klien_Meetinhouse_Montco_PA_Mennon.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995760","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_Meetinghouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6420164"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/montgomery-county/klein-meetinghouse-73001645/"}