{"nrhp_refnum":"97001243","name":"Providence Quaker Cemetery and Chapel","other_names":["Providence Meeting House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of PA 4038 and PA 4036 W","address_restricted":false,"city":"Perry","county":"Fayette County","state":"PA","lat":40.07289545800006,"lon":-79.78201915899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-10-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, roughly coursed stone burial chapel and cemetery on a hilltop at the intersection of SR 4036 and SR 4038 in Perry Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, one mile west and south of Perryopolis. The chapel was built circa 1895 on the site of the original Providence Meeting House.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the cemetery reflects early Quaker settlement in the Perryopolis area, a settlement that was central to the area's historic development, and that few other local resources associated with Quakerism remain. The chapel is presented as primarily utilitarian, with secondary value as a monument to that early settlement. The period of significance runs from 1790, when the Quaker meeting began, to 1895, when the present chapel and cast iron fence were erected.","narrative":"Built circa 1895 on the site of the Providence Meeting House, a Quaker meeting place founded in 1789, this one-story stone chapel stands on a hilltop cemetery in Perry Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The chapel was built largely from stone recovered from the ruins of the old meetinghouse, which was erected in 1793 after an earlier log structure. Providence was one of the earliest and largest of eleven Quaker meetings founded in southwestern Pennsylvania between 1780 and 1800, and it was the focal point of Quaker settlement north of Brownsville. The meeting closed in 1870, and descendants later began placing markers over graves that had been unmarked under Quaker tradition. Roughly sixty headstones remain, with many more graves unmarked. A circa 1895 cast iron fence defines the north, east and west edges of the grounds. The property is significant for its association with early Quaker settlement, and the cemetery is valued as one of the few surviving tangible links to that period in the region.","period_of_significance":"1790-1895","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"NO STYLE","criteria":["A","D"],"status_note":"The chapel retains integrity despite some vandalism; its interior is unfurnished, with a dirt floor, and the original wood door is gone.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.01547-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/97001243.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001243/ff9e4d262a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001243/ff9e4d262a-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quaker_Perryopolis_3.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:Quaker_Perryopolis_3.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996904","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_Quaker_Cemetery_and_Chapel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7252466"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/fayette-county/providence-quaker-cemetery-and-chapel-97001243/"}