<p>Reformed Dutch Church of Blawenburg, now known as Blawenburg Reformed Church, is a historic church at 424 County Route 518 in the Blawenburg section of Montgomery Township in Somerset County, New Jersey. The Blawenburg Reformed Church Cemetery is located on County Route 601 near CR 518. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 22, 1985 for its significance in architecture and religion. It was added as a contributing property to the Blawenburg Historic District in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Construction of the church building started in 1830 and was completed in 1831. Richard Brown was the chief carpenter. It was then known as the Second Dutch Reformed Church at Harlingen. It then became the Reformed Dutch Church at Blawenburg on March 4, 1832. A schoolhouse was built in 1853 by the church. It is now the village preschool. The church cemetery is west of the church on land partly donated by John Van Zandt in 1859.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The church is a two story white building, an example of late Georgian architecture. It has a bell tower with a feather-shaped weathervane on top. The facade features an oculus and two pie-shaped windows. There are two entrance doors.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>David F. Weeks (July 31, 1874 – March 15, 1929), football player, coach, and doctor</p><br>
<p>John Allan Wyeth (October 24, 1894 – May 11, 1981), World War I veteran, war poet, and painter</p><br>
<p>St. Bernard&#39;s Church and Parish House is a historic church complex located at 88 Claremont Road in the borough of Bernardsville in Somerset County, New Jersey. This Episcopal Church in the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey is named after St. Bernard of Clairvaux. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 6, 2006, for its significance in architecture.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was organized on October 22, 1896 and the building committee selected the architectural firm Napoleon LeBrun & Sons to design and build the church. Built with schist laid as random ashlar, it was designed to be a "purely English Gothic" church. It features a four-stage square tower with an attached hexagonal stair turret and topped with a metal cross. The cornerstone is dated 1897 and the church opened on June 29, 1898. The parish house was designed by architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, also a member of the congregation, and built in 1912. The stained-glass windows were made by the studios of Victorian designer Charles Eamer Kempe.</p><br>
<p>Bethany Chapel, also known as the Hamburg Presbyterian Church, is a historic building located at 103 Hamburg Turnpike in the borough of Hamburg, in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. Built in 1869, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 29, 1980, for its significance in architecture and religion.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The church was constructed using random coursed stone in 1869. Two transepts were added in 1879. The bell tower and steeple were added in 1884. All sections feature rural Gothic Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church of Wantage  is a historic church in Wantage Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. Church records point to a Dutch Reformed congregation founded in 1788, which merged with First Presbyterian Church of Wantage, founded in 1818. The building is situated on a hill, due south of Clove Brook, a creek from which it derives its common name. It was built in 1829 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 23, 1982 for its significance in architecture and religion. The structure is no longer used as a church, but the Friends of Old Clove Church continue an inter-denominational service once annually.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church is Greek Revival with Gothic detailing. The Gothic windows were included as ornament to distinguish the structure as a place of worship. Schools and barns in the area had a similar style and structure. This is the third church building to inhabit the property. The National Register of Historic Places describes the church as a "simple 1 1/2 story rectangular clapboarded frame structure with a four bayside facade and a three bay gable front on a cut stone foundation." The structure remains virtually unchanged since the 19th century. Features include: original floor design, original pews and a balcony that spans three sides of the interior. Two double-leaf entrance doorways on the south side of the structure point to separate entrances for males and females. Pot-bellied stoves and a Victorian chandelier were additions during the churches centennial.</p><br>
<h2>Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>Old Clove Church Cemetery is across New Jersey State Route 23 from the church. Interred here are the remains of several American Revolution and Civil War veterans.</p><br>
<p>Harmony Hill United Methodist Church is a Methodist Episcopal house of worship affiliated with the United Methodist Church and located about one mile north of the village of Stillwater in Stillwater Township of Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. The historic church was listed on both the New Jersey and National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>One of the earliest Methodist congregations organized in both New Jersey and the United States, Harmony Hill Methodist Church was established in 1802 along the Flanders Circuit, a large, nearly 400-mile circuit of several churches in northwestern New Jersey, Southern New York and Pennsylvania that was served by travelling ministers. The congregation met in its early members&#39; barns and homes until the current structure, a wood-frame building, was erected in 1832&ndash;1833. Its founders were either previously members (including original founders) of the Stillwater Presbyterian Church when that church was affiliated as a joint Lutheran and German Reformed congregation (before 1822), or from descendants of those founders, as the population of Stillwater assimilated from its Palatine German roots to English-oriented American culture.</p><br>
<h2>Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>Harmony Hill Methodist Church Cemetery, where most of the early parishioners are interred, is located adjacent to the church. Several members of the Main, Savercool, Wintermute and descendants of the early families of Stillwater are buried within the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Siloam Hope First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth  is a historic church at 14–44 Broad Street in Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey, United States. Built in 1783, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 6, 1977, for its significance in architecture and religion.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The churchyard dates from 1687 and has over two thousand graves, many from the American Revolutionary War, including the Reverend James Caldwell.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, a Bible dating from 1699 belonging to founder John Ogden (colonist) was returned to the congregation.</p><br>
<p>In 2019, the First Presbyterian Church merged with the Siloam Hope Presbyterian Church, becoming the Siloam Hope First Presbyterian Church. The newly merged congregation would remain at its original Broad Street location.</p><br>
<p>Grace Church or Grace Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 600 Cleveland Avenue in Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 10, 2002, for its significance in architecture, art, and music from 1892 to 1930.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On April 18, 1853, St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church was established. Three months later, the cornerstone of the church edifice was laid at East Front Street between Richmond and Berckman Streets in Plainfield—land the church had received as a gift—and construction was completed by early autumn. Over the next decade the congregation outgrew the church building and purchased the current site in the then-posh uptown neighborhood of Seventh Street and Sycamore Street (now Cleveland Avenue) and the original building was relocated. The removal and reconstruction of the old edifice was completed during the summer of 1876, and the congregation worshiped in the new building for the first time on October 15, 1876.</p><br>
<p>As Plainfield grew, it became a populous commuter town, the decision to build a larger church suitable for the needs of the church and its community was made. They turned to the renowned architect Robert W. Gibson, who was also responsible for several historic landmark New York City buildings, to design Grace Church as a stone Gothic-Revival structure with carved red sandstone trim and hints of the Romanesque.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>On May 5, 1891, the cornerstone of the new church was laid, and the first service in the new edifice was on April 17, 1892. In design and workmanship, Grace Church reflects late 19th century ecclesiastical architecture. The building is a two-story cruciform plan Gothic Revival style, characterized by the use of asymmetry, cruciform plan, pointed arched windows and arches, gothic style door carvings, and decorative sandstone trim around door and window openings. The church has a central nave flanked by narrow side aisles. Clerestory windows above the aisles illuminate the interior.</p><br>
<p>The chapel in the south transept of the nave is a memorial to Walter C. Scott and dedicated in 1966 designated as the Chapel of Christ the King. The pulpit of white oak was dedicated on All Saints Day, 1964, in memory of Dorothy Fleming Waring. In niches between the several carved linen fold panels are the Four Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, which were carved in Italy. At the foot of each figure is a carved symbol of the four Gospels.</p><br>
<p>The Parish House, constructed in 1905, has six classrooms, and two offices on the second level. The lower level consists of five classrooms, a small gymnasium, offices where Plainfield Community Outreach is located, the Choirmaster&#39;s Office, and the Choir room. The main floor houses the All Saints Chapel, Vestry Meeting Room, and parlor which connects the kitchen. At the end of the hallway, there is a large assembly hall named after Dr. Harry James Knickle, the ninth rector. On the opposite end of the main floor leading into the church is the Church office, and Rectors Office.</p><br>
<h2>Ackerman Memorial Garden</h2><br>
<p>The Ackerman Memorial Garden was dedicated on Sunday, May 18, 1969. The garden was given by the Ackerman sons in memory of their father and mother, were lifelong, devoted and faithful members of Grace Church. The Building & Maintenance Commission oversees the planting and grounds keeping. Today, with the plantings of flowers that attract various butterflies, the garden has been called "the Butterfly Garden". Parishioners may choose to have their cremains buried in the garden.</p><br>
<p>Engine Company No. 6 is located in Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. The firehouse was built in 1907 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 1984. A renovation occurred in 2008 at a cost of $650,000. The renovation included a new sprinkler system, a steel-reinforced floor, a kitchen and a physical training room. The firehouse currently houses Engine Company 3 and Rescue Company 1 of the Hoboken Fire Department.</p><br>
<p>Old Baptist Parsonage is a historic church parsonage at 547 Park Avenue in the township of Scotch Plains in Union County, New Jersey, United States. It is associated with the historic Scotch Plains Baptist Church and cemetery. The parsonage was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 18, 1973, for its significance in architecture.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, it was included in the Scotch Plains Baptist Church, Parsonage, and Cemetery listing on the NRHP.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>It still stands on the original site where it was built in 1786. This structure was the first stone parsonage of Essex County, which included what is now Union County. The wood frame addition was added in 1810.</p><br>
<p>Saint Mary&#39;s Catholic Church Complex is a historic Catholic parish church located within the Archdiocese of Newark at Liberty and W. 6th Streets in the city of Plainfield in Union County, New Jersey, United States. The complex, including the church, rectory, convent and school, was added to the National Register on April 11, 1985, for its significance in architecture and religion.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The church was designed featuring High Victorian Gothic architecture by Irish-American architect Jeremiah O&#39;Rourke and built from 1875 to 1880 with red, yellow, and black brick. The rectory was built in 1880 and also features High Victorian Gothic architecture. The three-story Victorian Gothic convent was built in 1910. The two-story Collegiate Gothic school was designed by architect James S. Piggott and built in 1931.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Parsonage, also known as the Andrew Hampton Homestead, is a historic house located at 633 Pearl Street in the city of Elizabeth in Union County, New Jersey, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 16, 1982, for its significance in architecture and religion.</p><br>
<p>It served as the parsonage and school for St. John&#39;s Church from 1749 to about 1885, after which it was used by the parish for "charitable purposes" until 1902. It was thereafter sold and used as a boarding house until purchased by the Elizabethtown Historical Society in 1960 and renovated.</p><br>
<p>A stone plaque on the facade between the first and second stories states it was built 1696 and rebuilt 1817. The red brick Federal style structure dates to at least 1749, and was restored in 1960 to its 1818 appearance. One wing is believed to be date to a 1696 structure. The floor plan and silhouette are typical of New Jersey homes of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.</p><br>
<p>St. Luke&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church building located at 346 High Street in the Hope section of Hope Township in Warren County, New Jersey, United States. Built from 1832 to 1839, it was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey  in 1937. The stone church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 2007, for its significance in architecture and religion. It had been previously added as a contributing property to the Hope Historic District on July 20, 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was formed in 1828. Construction of the church began in 1832, and was completed in 1839, with its consecration on October 12, 1839. The architect William Bulgin designed the building with early Gothic Revival style and built it using limestone.</p><br>
<p>The church is administered by the Episcopal Church of St. Luke and St. Mary, formed by the January 2016 merger of the former parish of St. Lukes with St. Marys in Belvidere.</p><br>
<p>The Abram Ackerman House is a historic stone house located at 199 East Saddle River Road in the borough of Saddle River in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. Built in 1781, it was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey  in 1936. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1983, for its significance in architecture and exploration/settlement. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission  and the Saddle River MPS.</p><br>
<p>Town folklore states that General George Washington slept overnight in this house during the American Revolutionary War, however HABS data reports this as unlikely.</p><br>
<p>The Methodist Episcopal Church of Burlington, also known as the "Old Burlington Church," is an historic, American Methodist Episcopal church that is located on US 6 at Township Road 357 in West Burlington, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1822, this historic structure is a two-story, rectangular, frame, front-gabled building. It measures thirty feet by forty-five feet. The interior features an elevated octagonal pulpit. Surrounding the church is a contributing cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Burlington ME church BradCo PA NRHP 1.jpgFront of church</p><br>
<p>Little Jerusalem AME Church, also known as Bensalem AME Church, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 1200 Bridgewater Road in Cornwells Heights, Bensalem Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1830 and renovated about 1860 and 1896. It is a -story, one-room frame structure with a gable roof. The cemetery surrounding the church contains burials of black Civil War soldiers.</p><br>
<p>It is one of the oldest African American churches, having been established about 1820 by Rev. James Miller under the supervision of Richard Allen (1760–1831), founder of the AME Church. The pulpit of the church was built by Allen. The church served as a shelter in the Underground Railroad, helping those fleeing slavery. It was the only traditionally African-American church in Bensalem Township from 1830 until 1930. Under the pastorate of Reverend John Butler, a sabbath school was established in 1848 to teach local African Americans to read and write.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Makefield Meeting, also known as the Makefield Monthly Meeting; Meeting House at Dolington, is an historic, American Quaker meeting house complex that is located in Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Weekly worship services are held at 10 a.m. on Sundays.</p><br>
<h2>History and notable features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1752, this historic structure is a two-story, six-bay, stuccoed, stone structure with a gable roof. Its second story was added in 1764; the building was renovated in 1851. The complex also includes the -story, stuccoed, stone schoolmaster&#39;s house that was built in 1787, and a horse shed that was built circa 1800.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Weekly worship services are held at 10 a.m. on Sundays.</p><br>
<p>The Newtown Presbyterian Church, also known as the Old Presbyterian Church of Newtown, is a historic Presbyterian church complex and national historic district located in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in July 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This old edifice is the second of four Presbyterian Church buildings that were erected in Newtown. The first was built in 1734, and William Tennent, the first minister, preached there one Sunday a month.</p><br>
<p>The first pastor to be installed in Newtown took office in 1752. That church building was erected in 1769 and remodeled in 1842. It is a two-and-one-half-story, rectangular, stone building that was designed in the Greek Revival style. A porch and two vestibules were added circa 1880.</p><br>
<p>One of the largest buildings in town in December 1776, it was commandeered by General George Washington for use by the Continental Army as a hospital, a jail and a prisoner of war camp during the American Revolution. After the Battle of Trenton, several hundred Hessians were held there before they began their long march to Philadelphia where, they were exchanged for American soldiers.</p><br>
<p>The small building on the south side of the church is known as the Session House. It was built sometime around 1800, and is a one-and-one-half-story, rubble fieldstone structure. It was used as a meeting place for the session, and is one of only two such buildings in the county still standing. Because most early session members were farmers and did not get to town except on Sunday, the Session House provided a quiet place for conducting church business.</p><br>
<p>The church cemetery is located behind the church building, and is partially surrounded by a stone wall. Eight British flags mark the graves of men who fought in the French and Indian Wars while twenty-eight flags mark the graves of church members who served under General Washington.</p><br>
<p>This property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in July 1987.</p><br>
<p>Red Hill Church and School is a historic church and school located on Durham Road at Ottsville, Tinicum Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The church was built in 1766, and is a two bay by two bay, stuccoed stone building with a gable roof. The one-room school building was built in 1843, and is a one-story, three bay by one bay, stuccoed stone building. It has a gable roof with cupola. The church was built by a Presbyterian congregation, who sold it to a Lutheran and Reformed Church congregation in 1843. It remain in use as a church until 1920, then re-occupied in the summer of 1959. The school was used for public education until 1958, after which it was used for community meetings.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>St. Elizabeth&#39;s Convent was a historic Roman Catholic convent located at 1663 Bristol Pike in Cornwells Heights, Bensalem Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. From 1892 to 2017 it served as the motherhouse of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, founded by St. Katharine Drexel as the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People.</p><br>
<p>The complex was also home to the Saint Katharine Drexel Mission Center and National Shrine. Saint Katharine was entombed in a crypt in the chapel until the entire crypt was moved to the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia and established as a new shrine.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The complex was built in 1892, and consists of three contributing buildings. They are built in the Spanish-French Mission style. The main building is the convent, which has an attached chapel and bell tower. The other contributing buildings are the utility building and -story laundry building.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The convent was closed and sold in 2017, though the chapel was preserved as a place of worship. The Drexel shrine, however, was decommissioned and rebuilt at the Philadelphia cathedral thereafter.</p><br>
<p>The Wrightstown Friends Meeting Complex is an historic, American Quaker meeting house that is located on PA 413 in Wrightstown, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>History and notable features</h2><br>
<p>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.</p><br>
<p>Edward Hicks, painter of The Peaceable Kingdom, attended services at this meetinghouse from 1814 to 1820.</p><br>
<p>This meetinghouse was added to the National Register in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Egg Hill Church is a historic church located at Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1860, and is a one-story, banked building built of pine on a stone foundation. It measures 35 feet wide and 42 feet long. Regular services at the church were suspended in 1927. The church is located at the southwest end of Egg Hill.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Potters Mills PA - Egg Hill Church...</p><br>
<p>Before the 1800s, the German immigrants were settling this area. Most of the immigrants were farmers. They had a circuit riding minister who travel on horseback to the area. During his six week trip, he would travel in a circle and visit as many homes as possible and conduct church services. People would have church in their homes. Rev. Philip Fithian, was one of these ministers. He traveled Penns Valley as early as 1775.</p><br>
<p>Jacob Albright started the Evangelical movement. He started to preach in 1796. Had a lot of followers and 1806 there was a major revival movement and Jacob Albright was elected Bishop. During this time he came to Centre County to preach in pioneer homes, including John Dauberman’s home on Egg Hill.</p><br>
<p>By the 1830s, there were enough followers and it was realistic to build a church. Circuit riding ministers would have as many as four to six homes where they was hold services. By 1838 the first Evangelical log church was built on Egg Hill.</p><br>
<p>In 1860, the old log church was replaced with the current building. The simple wooden structure, which was built entirely of pine, reflected the simplicity and humility of its evangelical founders.</p><br>
<p>Regular weekly services were held on Egg Hill until 1927 when the church closed. They would continue to have an annual Homecoming Service. The service is held the last Sunday in September.</p><br>
<p>This section is attributed to Centre County, PA historian Vonnie Henniger.</p><br>
<p>Chronological order of events:</p><br>
<p>1800 – Evangelical Association was founded by Jacob Albright. These associations were popular in the predominately German communities of central Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>1838 – John and Mary Dauberman donated land on what the locals called Egg Hill. The original log church was built on this property. An adjoining cemetery, the Dauberman Egg Hill Cemetery saw its first recorded burial. Daniel Waggoner was a Revolutionary War veteran and lived close by the church. The last burial allowed in the Cemetery occurred in 2016. See the link below for a list of those buried here.</p><br>
<p>1860 – The original log church was replaced by the current building. Congregation members built the simple wooden structure using pine wood which reflected the simplicity and humility of its founders.</p><br>
<p>1927 – For many years, the Dauberman, Hennig(h), Dillman and other local families supported the Egg Hill Church until it suspended regular services. The only time the church was used after this year was for an annual Homecoming Service, along with sporadic weddings and other special events.</p><br>
<p>1970 – When it was determined that the church steeple was beyond repair, it was removed.</p><br>
<p>1979 – With the church badly in need of many repairs, the Egg Hill Conservancy was established by Centre County Historian, Vonnie Henniger, Lynn Miller and other interested parties. Had this Conservancy not been formed, Egg Hill Church would have been sold and the building would have been razed.</p><br>
<p>1979 – The Egg Hill Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places. (#79002189)</p><br>
<p>1988 – The church was used to in a film documentary on William Penn’s vision of creating a utopian community where religious freedom and toleration would be observed.</p><br>
<p>2019 – After inspections were done at the church, the building itself was deemed safe, but the foundation was in poor condition and needed to be replaced. A GoFundMe account was established and that work was completed in 2020.</p><br>
<p>2024 – There are several repairs needed to the building. The wood siding on the outside back of the building, shutters and windows need to be replaced. The eaves and soffit need immediate attention also, and it is not known how long it will be until the roof will have to be replaced. After many years as caretaker of the property, Vonnie Henniger has requested that Beth Kennedy take her place. A new Preservation group is being formed with the intention of raising funds to cover these repairs. A Facebook page has been created to highlight activity at the church - Egg Hill Preservation</p><br>
<p>The Union Church and Burial Ground  is an historic, American church and cemetery that is located on East Presqueisle Street in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The church and cemetery were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History and notable features</h2><br>
<p>A log meetinghouse was built in 1820 by the fifty-seven residents of Philipsburg for a cost of $343. The building was used both as a school and as the community&#39;s first church, open to all Protestant ministers.</p><br>
<p>In 1842, the building was extensively rebuilt as a Gothic-style, Anglican church with a three-story entrance tower added to the front, a chancel added to the rear and the log walls of the meetinghouse incorporated into the main sanctuary. A rough mixture of plaster and clay stucco covers the church giving it its common name of the "Old Mud Church."</p><br>
<p>Hardman Philips had donated much of the money to rebuild the church and intended to make it an Episcopalian Church. After a lengthy lawsuit, the church continued to serve many denominations, including Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and Methodists. The last regular religious use was by Free Methodists during the early 1920s. The building has also been used as a local museum.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery is surrounded by a three-foot stone wall and contains a 330-year-old white oak known as the "Founder&#39;s Oak." The oldest grave dates to 1819.</p><br>
<p>The church and cemetery were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is located in the Philipsburg Historic District.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church of West Chester is a historic Presbyterian church located at 130 W. Miner Street in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was designed in 1832 by Thomas U. Walter, who later became the fourth Architect of the Capitol. The church is a stuccoed stone building measuring 75 feet long and 45 feet wide in the Greek Revival style. Additions were built in 1860 and 1955. The front facade features a recessed porch flanked by two projections with pilasters.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>1st_Presbyterian_Church_West_Chester_PA.JPGJanuary 2010</p><br>
<p>West Chester PA 1st Presby PHS637.jpgBefore 1923</p><br>
<p>St. Peter&#39;s Church in the Great Valley is a historic Episcopal church in East Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb. The church was founded in 1704 as a missionary parish of the Church of England in what was then the colonial Province of Pennsylvania. The parish is part of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>18th century</h3><br>
<p>The current stone church building was constructed sporadically between 1728–1744 to replace an earlier wooden building built by 1710. The 1744 building was a stone structure with a medium pitched gable roof measuring 47 feet by 28 feet.</p><br>
<p>During the American Revolution, the church was used as a hospital by both British and American forces.</p><br>
<p>After the nearby Battle of Paoli in 1777. the British Army, recognizing St. Peter&#39;s as part of the Church of England, oversaw the burial of a British officer (believed to be Captain William Wolfe, commander of the Light Company of the British 40th Regiment of Foot), at least two other unidentified British soldiers, and at least five unidentified American soldiers killed in the battle. The British and American troops are buried side by side along the old west wall of the churchyard. Several small American and British flags are traditionally kept at the graves out of respect for the soldiers from both armies (see illustration, below).</p><br>
<h3>19th and 20th centuries</h3><br>
<p>A two-story addition was built in 1856, and the -story Parish House added in 1901. Over its three century history, St. Peter&#39;s has been led by more than three dozen missionaries and priests. After a series of architectural modernizations (many later referred to as vandalisms) in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the church was carefully restored in 1944 to somewhat approximate the simplicity of the original 1744 building.</p><br>
<p>In 1977, the original church building, and the adjacent burial ground, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h3>21st century</h3><br>
<p>Early in the 21st century, the growing congregation built a timber-framed parish center and modern worship space designed in a style reminiscent of the original Welsh barns in the area.</p><br>
<p>Caln Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house located at 901 Caln Meeting House Road, near Coatesville in Caln Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1726, and is a one-story, tan fieldstone structure. It was enlarged to its present size in 1801.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Services are still held weekly at the meeting house. A graveyard is also held on the northern end of the building, with another sitting on the other side of PA 340.</p><br>
<p>One third of the Caln Meeting House is used by the Old Caln Historical Society as a local history museum and to house archives, artifacts and other historical memorabilia.</p><br>
<p>St. Marys Episcopal Church, also known as Old Saint Marys Church, is a historic Episcopal church located on Warwick Road, Warwick Township in Elverson, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The church was built in 1843, and is a one-story, rectangular stuccoed fieldstone structure in the Gothic Revival style. It measures 50 feet wide and 70 feet deep. The church is surrounded by the parish cemetery, with burials dating to 1806.</p><br>
<p>Founded by the Rev. Levi Bull, DD, in 1805, the first church here was built in 1806. J.F. Sachse, of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, believed it to be the first church built in Pennsylvania after the American Revolution. A notable military officer Samuel Van Leer played an important role in the American Revolutionary War and is buried here. Dr. Bull continued to minister to the congregation here for almost 50 years. During Dr. Bull&#39;s tenure, in 1843, the original church was replaced by the present structure.</p><br>
<p>By the 1970s, the congregation had fallen to about ten attendees. However, the congregation was revived in the 1990s by financial support from the Brandywine Deanery and adopted elements of the charismatic movement under the rectorate of the Rev. John Maher.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Uwchlan Meetinghouse is an historic Quaker meeting house located on North Village Avenue  at Lionville in Uwchlan Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1756, and is a -story, rubble fieldstone structure with a gable roof. Monthly as well as weekly meetings for business matters were first held there. So, too, were weddings and burials.</p><br>
<h2>Meeting house, library and school</h2><br>
<p>The origin of the building began in 1715 when Joseph Cadwalader, a Welshman, bought a large tract of land from David Lloyd and donated a small piece to the Society of Friends for their meeting house and burial ground. The Welsh Friends who had been meeting in different homes built a log cabin, which some historians think burned down, and subsequently built a second log cabin with glass windows. As more people moved into the area and prospered, they replaced the log cabin with the current meeting house, using field stone.</p><br>
<p>Originally, the structure had a balcony with stairs and four fireplaces in each of the corners. Also, a partition was included so that when closed, it provided warmth when only a few people attended meetings and provided space for business meetings. The meeting house was the area&#39;s first library and then the first school. It was open to all children, even those who could not afford the tuition. After the public school system was started in Pennsylvania, the meeting house became a public school (1806)</p><br>
<h2>Revolutionary and Civil Wars</h2><br>
<p>During the winter of 1777–78, it was used as a hospital by the Continental Army at Valley Forge and staffed by Dr. Bodo Otto (1711–1787). Soldiers slept on the floor on straw and were warmed with the fireplaces. Distant wells provided water, and homemade candles and lanterns provided light. Many who died there were buried behind the meeting house. When the American Civil War came 80 years later, the Friends wanted to support the abolition of slavery and again offered their meeting house as a hospital. The soldiers must have slept in the balcony because on the walls are their scratched names, messages, and regimental numbers.</p><br>
<h2>Grange and Women&#39;s Club</h2><br>
<p>After 1900 when many other religious sects came into the area, Uwchlan Friends began to move away or attend other churches. The few families left couldnt maintain the building, so they sold it to the Uwchlan Grange Patrons of Husbandry in 1920. The Grange continued to rent the building as a public school, and Grange members plus local 4H groups held meetings there. Once again dwindling members, this time of the Grange, meant maintenance was an issue, and the building was sold to the Womans Community Club of Uwchlan in 1963. The understanding was that the Grange could meet there weekly. After the last members died or moved away, the Grange at Lionville was disbanded in 1974. The Women&#39;s Club put in running water and a heating system, converted the old east porch into a kitchen, and remodeled the west wing. But when faced with replacing the roof, they decided to sell the building to the newly formed Uwchlan Conservation Trust. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Birmingham Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house at 1245 Birmingham Road in Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The current meetinghouse was built in 1763. The building and the adjacent cemetery were near the center of fighting on the afternoon of September 11, 1777 at the Battle of Brandywine. Worship services are held weekly at 10am. The meetinghouse and adjacent octagonal schoolhouse were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Birmingham Friends Meetinghouse and School on July 27, 1971.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first Quaker meeting in Birmingham Township was held about 1690. In 1718 a meetinghouse was built from red cedar logs. A burial ground, surrounded by a stone wall, was established in the 1750s. The building was made out of stone in 1763 and measured 38 by 41 feet. During the Battle of Brandywine, the British forces attempted to flank the Continental forces under General George Washington. The Continental forces rushed north to meet the British in the area of the meetinghouse. It was used as a hospital first for the Americans, and after the battle for British officers. The stone wall around the cemetery was used as a defensive position by the Americans. After the battle, dead British and American soldiers shared a common grave in the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The meetinghouse was enlarged in 1819 and an octagonal school was completed in August, 1819 at a cost of $712.57. The school was used off and on through 1905 and is included in the NRHP site. In 1968 Quaker architect Mather Lippincott designed a new education building to the north of the meeting house.</p><br>
<p>The school is now used as The Peace Center at Birmingham.</p><br>
<p>From 1845 to 1923 a group of Quakers worshipped a few hundred yards south at the Orthodox Meetinghouse as a result of the Hicksite-Orthodox split. That meetinghouse is listed separately on the NRHP.</p><br>
<p>Bradford Friends Meetinghouse, also known as Marshallton Meeting House, is a historic Quaker meeting house located at Marshallton in West Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1764–1765, and is a one-story, stone structure with a gable roof. A porch was added to two sides of the building in the 19th century. The interior is divided into four rooms, rather than the customary two. Abraham Marshall, father of botanist Humphry Marshall was instrumental in the establishment of the meeting in the 1720s. Text and photographs by HABS The meeting originally met from 1722 to 1727 at the Marshall home, Derbydown Homestead, from 1722 to 1727.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It is located in the Marshallton Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Old Kennett Meetinghouse is a historic meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends or "Quakers" in Kennett Township near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Kennett Monthly Meeting house known as Old Kennett was first constructed in 1710 on land owned by Ezekiel Harlan, deeded from William Penn. Kennett and Marlboro Townships were being colonized by farming Quaker families who joined with members of New Castle Meeting, Hockessin Meeting and Centre Meeting (near Centerville Delaware) every four to six weeks for business meetings at Newark (New Ark) Meeting. Then, as Newark Meeting dwindled away, the Meetings united at the Old Kennett Meeting house, which then came to bear the name of Newark after the meeting of that name ceased to exist. In May, 1760, the named changed as Friends of Newark Monthly Meeting requested that the name be altered from Newark to that of Kennett.</p><br>
<p>During the Revolutionary War these Quakers adopted an official attitude of neutrality, but it was in the cemetery adjoining the Old Kennett Meeting House that the first shots of the Battle of the Brandywine were fired on September 11, 1777. Although the British and Hessian forces were surprised as they came 5000 strong from Kennett that morning, the small American force led by General Maxwell was driven back to the north hills of Chadds Ford. The soldiers killed in the battle that afternoon are buried in the adjoining Old Kennett Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>During the 19th century the membership of Kennett Meeting suffered divisions. The first was in 1812 when a new Kennett Meeting was formed within the Borough of Kennett Square. In 1827 Friends split into conservative and liberal sects, and by 1828 there were separate Kennett Monthly Meetings. The liberal group, the Hicksites, named after Elias Hicks, retained the old Kennett Meeting while the conservative Friends established Parkersville Friends Meetinghouse which was used until 1904.</p><br>
<p>Although Quakers had released their slaves before the revolution and worked to change the laws, those who could not agree to holding public anti-slavery meetings in the Meeting House made “progressive” friends so impatient that they left to form their own meeting. The Progressive Friends built the Longwood Meeting House and were disowned until 1874. The meetinghouse has hosted visitors including Lucretia Mott, William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Harriet Tubman.</p><br>
<p>Gradually the membership of Old Kennett Meeting dwindled until in the early 1920s Meetings for Worship might have only one or two members sitting in the stillness of the ancient building. Since 1950 the Old Kennett Committee of Kennett Meeting (Kennett Square) has maintained the building, opening it for worship on the last Sunday of June, July, and August at 11 a.m. In July 1974 the Old Kennett Meeting house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, making it nationally recognized as a historically and architecturally significant structure.</p><br>
<p>Old Kennett&#39;s tercentennial was celebrated in 2010 with a lecture series and historical tours being held at the meetinghouse.</p><br>
<p>The meetinghouse is open for Quaker Meeting-for-Worship on the last Sundays of June, July and August at 9:00 am and for occasional weddings, funerals and other events.</p><br>
<p>The Birmingham Orthodox Friends Meeting, also known as the Birmingham Orthodox Meeting House, is an historic, American Quaker meetinghouse that is located in Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Erected in 1845, as a result of the Hicksite-Orthodox split in the Society of Friends, the Birmingham Orthodox Friends Meetinghouse was built in a modern or "classical" style, with larger windows than the older Birmingham Friends Meetinghouse. Created at a total cost of $2,310.83, it was built using green serpentine stone that was quarried at Chalkley Bell&#39;s Quarries in Westtown Township. It seated up to 200 people. A small graveyard was also built in 1874.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The members of the Birmingham Friends Meetinghouse, which was located a few hundred yards north, joined the Hicksite branch of the Quaker movement, as was common among farmers in Chester and Delaware Counties. That meetinghouse was the site of fighting during the Battle of Brandywine in 1777, and is listed separately on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The two meetinghouses rejoined in 1923, well before the overall split healed in 1955. The Orthodox Meetinghouse was sold in 1938 for use as a private residence.</p><br>
<p>St. Malachi Church is a historic Irish Roman Catholic mission church on St. Malachi Road in rural Londonderry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It is a mission of Our Lady of Consolation of Parkesburg. The church with its adjoining cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places  in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The church is remarkable for its simplicity, resembling a Quaker meeting house more than a Catholic parish church. It is a rectangular one story stone stucco-covered building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church has never had a resident priest, remaining a mission since its founding. Early services were conducted by visiting missionaries. In 1840 it became a mission church of St. Agnes Church in West Chester according to the NRHP nomination form. Later it was a mission of parishes in Parkesburg and Coatesville.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in the eighteenth century. The earliest standing tombstone bears the date 1771 and marks the grave of Thomas Maguire. The land was donated to the church in 1794 by Andrew Maguire. An attempt to build a church started in 1800. The building was completed in 1838 next to the cemetery on the Maguire farm. John Ferron, owner of the NRHP-listed John Ferron House, was the carpenter for the church. Henry Ferron and the Maguire family were the stone masons.</p><br>
<p>Major improvements were made to the building in 1865, and again in 1937, in preparation for the church&#39;s centennial. Electricity and central heating were installed sometime after 1973. In the early 1990s major roof repairs were made, air conditioning was added and a port-a-potty was brought in. Indoor plumbing was added later.</p><br>
<p>The first mass was celebrated on January 1, 1839 by Father James A. Miller. The first pastor, Father Bernard McCabe, was soon appointed and he also served missions in Coatesville, about seven miles north of the church, and Parkesburg, about eight miles northwest. The first confirmation was conferred in 1843 by Bishop Francis Kenrick. St. John Neumann conferred another confirmation in 1854. In 1853 the Seven Dolors church, now Our Lady of Consolation, was built in Parkesburg, and St. Malachi became a mission of Seven Dolors. Between 1871 and 1902 both Seven Dolors and St. Malachi were missions of St. Cecilia’s in Coatesville. In 1902 Seven Dolors again became a self-supporting parish and served the mission of St. Malachi.</p><br>
<p>Services at St. Malachi had been celebrated irregularly in the 1930s and 1940s and starting in 1952 were scheduled only three or four times annually. Starting in 1963 services were scheduled monthly and beginning in 1973, weekly.</p><br>
<p>The church is unusual in Chester County, an early stronghold of Quakerism in the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania. Irish had settled in the area before 1730, but they were Presbyterians and Quakers. About 1730 Presbyterians established a well-known church and religious school at Faggs Manor about five miles southwest of St. Malachi. In 1757 there were only 55 Irish Catholics (32 male, 23 female) counted in Chester County.</p><br>
<p>James W. and Anne Smith Phyfe Estate is a national historic district located at Nissequogue in Suffolk County, New York. The district encompasses an estate with two contributing buildings. The estate house is a large two-story Neoclassical style structure built in 1904. It features a colossal attic pediment carried on two-story Ionic order columns enclosing a cantilevered balcony on the second floor. Located nearby is a contributing carriage house.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>William J. Ryan Estate, now Nissequogue Golf Club, is a national historic district located at Nissequogue in Suffolk County, New York. The district includes the principal dwelling, now the club house designed by Bradley Delehanty. The estate house was built in 1930 and is a two-story, brick structure with a five bay center block connected to perpendicular wings by hyphens. The entrance features a three bay projecting center section that rises to a pedimented roof gable; at the ridge is a circular attic window.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Saint James District is a national historic district located at St. James in Smithtown Town, Suffolk County, New York. The district includes 21 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and one contributing structure. Prominent buildings within the district are the Timothy Smith House  and dependencies, "Deepwells"  and dependencies, St. James Episcopal Church and dependencies, the St. James Railroad Station , and St. James General Store . The newest structure, the 1922-built Saint James Fire Department was also included in the district, but was modernized in recent decades.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Image gallery</h2><br>
<p>Box Hill Estate is a national historic district located in St. James in Suffolk County, New York. The district encompasses an estate that includes five contributing buildings and one contributing structure. The estate house was the summer home of Stanford White. It was built in 1885 and is a rambling, multi-gabled structure surfaced in pebblestone dashed stucco. It features a one-story verandah defined by a range of fluted columns. Also on the property are a contributing cottage, barn, carriage house, stable, and water tower.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Mills Pond District is a national historic district located at St. James in Suffolk County, New York. The district includes nine contributing buildings. Prominent buildings within the district are the Mills Homestead , Wegrzyn Barn, ice house, Wegrzyn House , Dougherty House , Papadakos House , Gyrodene Gambrel Roofed House , and Perry House .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Van Winkle House is located at 798 Franklin Lake Road in the borough of Franklin Lakes in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The historic stone house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1984, for its significance in architecture. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<p>According to the nomination form, the house was likely built by Simeon Van Winkle, a carpenter, sometime before 1761. The 1861 Hopkins–Corey map lists Uriah Riper Van Winkle living here. The house was expanded by a rear addition in 1919.</p><br>
<p>The Independent Congregational Church, also known as the Unitarian Church of Meadville, is an historic Congregational church which is located at 346 Chestnut Street in Meadville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1835 and 1836, this historic structure is a large, squarish, red brick building with a portico with Doric order columns supporting a pediment. A Greek Revival-style building, this church was designed by Gen. George Washington Cullum (1809-1892), who also designed Fort Sumter.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was a supporter of the Meadville Theological School.</p><br>
<p>This building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The German Evangelical Zion Lutheran Church, which became the Tabernacle Baptist Church in 1967, is an historic Lutheran church that is located at Capital and Herr Streets in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1886, this historic church is a two-story brick building, which was designed in a modified Gothic style. It features a three-story square bell tower with large oval windows and brick tracery.</p><br>
<p>Attached to the church by a one-bay, two-story section is a three-story brick parsonage that was built in 1897.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>In November 2019, the parish left the church building and moved to another location. The site was briefly known as Choice Community Christian Church until March 2021 when the parish also moved to another location.</p><br>
<p>The Salem United Church of Christ, formerly known as the Old Salem Reformed Church, is an historic, Reformed church that is located at 231 Chestnut Street in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1821 and 1822, this historic structure is a two-story, brick building that was designed in a Classical style. It features a large square bell tower that is topped by a domed cupola. The tower is flanked by two, three-story towers with stepped gables. A two-story, Sunday school annex was built to the rear of the church in 1862.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Chichester Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house at 611 Meetinghouse Road near Boothwyn, in Upper Chichester Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. This area, near Chester, was one of the earliest areas settled by Quakers in Pennsylvania. The meetinghouse, first built in 1688, then rebuilt after a fire in 1769, reflects this early Quaker heritage. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the year that William Penn first arrived in Pennsylvania, 1682, the Chichester Meeting was first organized as an "indulged meeting" or subsidiary meeting of the Uplands Monthly Meeting of present-day Chester. The Uplands Meeting had been organized by Robert Wade, who arrived in the area in 1675, from earlier Quaker settlements in New Jersey. Chichester attained the status of Monthly Meeting in March, 1684. This group of Friends met in member&#39;s homes until about 1688 when a 24 ft square meetinghouse was built on two acres. The land was sold on October 4, 1688 by James Brown for 1 shilling and sixpence "only for the use of the people of God, called Quakers." In January 1769 the meetinghouse burned down, and later that year a 33 by 38 ft building was erected in its place.</p><br>
<p>The doors show bullet holes incurred from British foraging parties after the Battle of Brandywine in September, 1777.</p><br>
<p>About 1827, the time of the Orthodox-Hicksite separation, two meetings were established in the building. The Orthodox branch was "laid down" or discontinued in 1880. The Hicksite branch was discontinued in 1914. Since then the meetinghouse has only been used for special occasions. No modern conveniences such as heat, plumbing or electricity have been added to the building, so it is considered to be in pristine condition. Text and photographs by HABS</p><br>
<p>It was illegal to build Quaker meetinghouses in England until the Act of Toleration of 1689. Because meetinghouses were built in this area of Pennsylvania at an earlier date, and because the 1769 meetinghouse is believed to reflect the style of the earlier meetinghouse, the Chichester Meetinghouse is believed to show an early "English" style of Quaker architecture.</p><br>
<p>A caretaker&#39;s house was built in 1703 and in 1783 a two-story barn with a six bay shed was built. Both buildings are still in use.</p><br>
<p>Concord Friends Meetinghouse is a historic meeting house on Old Concord Road in Concordville, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The meeting was first organized sometime before 1697, as the sixth Quaker meeting in what was then Chester County. In 1697 the meeting leased its current location for "one peppercorn yearly forever" from John Mendenhall. A log structure was built in 1710. The current brick edifice structure was built in 1728. After a fire which completely destroyed the interior, the meetinghouse was rebuilt and enlarged in 1788. During the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777, which was fought a few miles to the west, wounded American soldiers took refuge in the meetinghouse.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It is located in the Concordville Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Radnor Friends Meetinghouse is an historic, American Quaker meeting house that is located on Sproul and Conestoga Roads in Radnor Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The meeting house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>In 1686, there were sufficient number of Friends in Radnor township to begin meetings at the house of John Jerman, a Quaker minister.</p><br>
<p>The current meeting house was built in 1717 with an addition made several years later. An earlier meeting house existed on the site as early as 1693. During the Revolutionary War, the meeting house was used as an outpost for General George Washington&#39;s Continental Army.</p><br>
<p>The meeting house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Worship services are held weekly at 10 a.m.</p><br>
<p>The Van Horn–Ackerman House is a historic stone house located at 101 Wyckoff Avenue in the township of Wyckoff in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The oldest section of the house was built in 1745 by Barent Van Horn and is referred to as a telescope house because of the way it starts as a small house and larger additions were built later. It was documented as the John Branford House by the Historic American Buildings Survey  in 1937. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1983, for its significance in architecture and exploration/settlement. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<p>The Demott–Westervelt House, also known as the Peter Westervelt House, is located at 285 Grand Avenue in the city of Englewood in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The historic stone house was built in 1808 by Peter Westervelt for Henry Demott. It was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey  in 1936. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 9, 1983, for its significance in architecture and exploration/settlement. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<p>Gauley Bridge Railroad Station is a historic railroad station in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia. The station was constructed on a Kanawha and Michigan Railroad line in 1893 and later became a Chesapeake and Ohio Railway station. It closed to trains in 1958 and became a fire station for the Gauley Bridge Volunteer Fire Department until it closed permanently in 1973. The station is reflective of company-built small-town railroad stations of its era. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 15, 1980.</p><br>
<p>Decker&#39;s Chapel is a historic chapel on Earth Road and PA 255 in St. Marys, Elk County, Pennsylvania within the Diocese of Erie.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1856 and is a one-story gable-end oriented and clapboard clad wood-frame structure. It measures 12 feet by 18 feet and contains a single, plastered room. It features a rectangular steeple with an open belfry capped with a cross tipped, pyramidal roof. Also on the property is a granite commemorative marker dedicated in 1928 to Monsignor Michael Joseph Decker.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>St. Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Church, also known as St. Nicholas Greek Catholic Church, is a historic Catholic Church church at 504 S. Liberty Street in Perryopolis, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1912 and 1918, and is a 30 feet by 60 feet yellow brick building in the Byzantine Revival style. It has a cruciform plan and the gabled roof is topped by four onion domes. The church served a community of Rusyns who originally settled in the area prior to 1907.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Historic Church of St. Peter is a Roman Catholic church in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in the Diocese of Greensburg. The Historic Church of St. Peter also has a partner parish in Grindstone, Pennsylvania named St. Cecilia&#39;s Roman Catholic Church, which was built in 1931.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The first Catholic parish in Fayette County, it is the oldest continuously operating parish in Western Pennsylvania. It is also believed to have been the spot on which the first religious service of any kind offered west of the Allegheny Mountains was held. On July 1, 1754, French troops on their way to capture Fort Necessity from the British climbed the bank from the Monongahela River with their Chaplain Rev. Denys Baron and prayed for victory. That mass of the French troops is depicted in one of the stained glass windows in the church.</p><br>
<p>The stone Gothic Revival church building on Church Street is a landmark. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is located in the Brownsville Northside Historic District. depict Catholic history from 1754 to 1843.</p><br>
<p>The church was established in 1843 to serve the burgeoning Irish American population. At the time, Brownsville was an important gateway to the West and South due to its location on the National Road, and believing it, not Pittsburgh, would become the seat of the episcopal see, the founders built the church to be a future cathedral. The pulpit is located to the left of the altar, as in a cathedral, and the crypt includes space for the tombs of bishops.</p><br>
<h2>Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>Another unique feature of The Historic Church of St. Peter is its cemetery. In addition to its unique inscriptions on the headstone, the Cemetery has been featured in Ripley&#39;s Believe It or Not as the only cemetery with heated graves. The boiler that heated the church was located in a separate building across the street and the pipes running under the cemetery to the church created a significant enough amount of heat to even melt snow on several grave sites.</p><br>
<h3>Notable Burials</h3><br>
<p>Parents of James G. Blaine, a West Brownsville native who was a U. S. Senator and Secretary of State and narrowly lost the 1884 United States presidential election to Grover Cleveland</p><br>
