{"nrhp_refnum":"78002392","name":"Darby Meeting","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1017 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Darby","county":"Delaware County","state":"PA","lat":39.92100157500005,"lon":-75.26290778199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-09-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Darby Meeting is a Quaker meeting house in Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, built in 1805 of fieldstone, with a stone house and a frame shed on the same property.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the meeting house is a representative example of the simple, unobtrusive Quaker meeting house, usually of stone and large proportions, and notes it is quite similar to the Horsham Friends Meeting House. The congregation traces back to the late 17th century and still functions as a meeting house with its interior largely unchanged since construction.","narrative":"Darby Meeting is a two and a half story Quaker meeting house built in 1805 of coursed fieldstone, with a gable roof, brick chimneys at each gable end, and a hip-roofed porch on three sides supported by wooden pillars. Its twelve-over-twelve sash windows on the first floor and eight-over-eight on the second are set in heavy timber frames. Inside, the plastered walls, oak floor and pine wainscoting remain largely as they were when the building was erected, with brick fireplaces at each gable end and a rear balcony with pews. The congregation's minutes date from July 2, 1684, when meetings were held in members' homes. A log meeting house followed in 1687, then a larger building measuring sixty by twenty feet in 1701. The present building replaced that structure. The nomination regards it as a typical example of the plain Quaker meeting house tradition, of stone and large proportions, and as closely comparable to the Horsham Friends Meeting House. Beside it stands a stone house built in several sections.","period_of_significance":"1805","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The building is in good structural condition and good state of repair; it is still functioning as a meeting house.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.943664-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/78002392.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002392/51f72dcd41-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002392/51f72dcd41-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DarbyMeeting2.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones at en.wikipedia</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DarbyMeeting2.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995206","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darby_Meeting","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5222274"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/delaware-county/darby-meeting-78002392/"}