<p>Harbaugh&#39;s Reformed Church, now non-denominational and known as Harbaugh Church, is an historic Reformed church which is located at 14301 and 14269 Harbaugh Church Road in Washington Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic church building is one of five properties owned by The Waynesboro Historical Society and is available for weddings, funerals and special events. Built in 1892, it is a -story, three-bay-by-five-bay, brick Late Gothic Revival-style building, which features a steep, slate covered gable roof, brick buttresses, and lancet stained glass windows.</p><br>
<p>The building replaced an earlier church that was built in 1846 by George Harbaugh on farmland he owned.</p><br>
<p>The property includes the church cemetery, which was established circa 1845. Regular services were held in the current building until 1966. It was acquired by the historical society in 1983.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church is an historic, American Presbyterian church that is located in Letterkenny Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1794, this historic structure is a -story, four by six-bay, brick, Georgian-style building that measures forty-eight feet by sixty feet, and has a gable roof. The interior of the church includes two ten-plate stoves, brick aisleways, a crude ladder leading to a loft, and wooden pews that are long and narrow with high straight-backed seating. The ends of the pews are carved with the names of the previous occupants identifying the military ranks they held during the Revolutionary War.</p><br>
<p>Rocky Springs Church was a pay for pew church that required members to sign a financial agreement between the trustees of the church and the pew holders requiring an annual fee for occupancy of the pew.</p><br>
<p>The Church&#39;s pulpit is circular in form and positioned above the pews giving the speaker full view of the congregation. Access is gained by a staircase. Above the pulpit is an oval-shaped canopy or sounding board.</p><br>
<p>Five acres of land to build the church were acquired by warrant on November 6, 1792. Trustees of the congregation who acquired the land upon which to build the church included: George Matthews, Esq., James McCalmont, Esq., James Ferguson, Esq., James Culbertson, Esq., and Samuel Culbertson. The property includes the church cemetery; the oldest gravestone dates to the 1780s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Each year, the church is opened for an annual Presbyterian service giving the people in attendance an opportunity to experience the austere beauty of the church.</p><br>
<p>St. Peter&#39;s Episcopal Church and Rectory is a historic Episcopal church and rectory in Blairsville, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. The church was built in 1830, and is a small, rectangular brick building on a stone foundation in an Early Gothic Revival style. It features a belfry atop the front entrance gable roof. The rectory was built in 1889, and is a -story, wood-frame building with Eastlake movement elements.</p><br>
<p>It was added to National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Brookville Presbyterian Church and Manse is a historic Presbyterian church located at White and Main Streets in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States. The church was built in 1904–1905, and is a Richardsonian Romanesque-style building built of Hummelstown brownstone. It features two entrances, each set in a loggia, and a square bell tower. The interior is designed in the Akron plan. The manse was built in 1890, and is a brick Second Empire-style dwelling. It features two, 2-story bay windows; a mansard roof; and an open porch.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is located in the Brookville Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Bangor Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church complex located at Churchtown, in Caernarvon Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The church was built in 1830, and is a 1 1/2-story, brownstone rectangular building in the Gothic Revival style. It has a steep, slate covered gable roof and steeple added about 1880. It features Gothic arch art glass windows. The complex includes the frame school building. It is a one-story, three bay building built in 1844 in the Greek Revival style. Also on the property is a contributing cemetery with approximately 325 graves dated from the Revolutionary War to the present.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Bangor Church School LanCo PA.JPGChurch school building</p><br>
<p>Donegal Presbyterian Church Complex is an historic Presbyterian church complex on Donegal Springs Road in East Donegal Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The church was built in 1732, and is a -story, three-bay-by-five bay, stuccoed stone building with a gambrel roof.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The chapel underwent a remodeling in 1851. The adjacent cemetery is enclosed in a rough-hewn stone wall built in 1791. The property also includes the William Kerr Study House, a -story, five-bay brick dwelling originally built in 1810 and expanded in the early 20th century. The building was restored in 1976.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. p.92, note that Chiat misidentifies the county as Franklin County.</p><br>
<p>In 1777, during worship services, word came to the congregation by way of an express rider, that the British General Howe was about to invade Pennsylvania. The message relayed was that the British army had advanced and had forced Washingtons troops to retreat to Chadds Ford. The rider found Colonel Alexander Lowry, who was attending worship at Donegal that Sunday, and shared the news with him, to encourage Lowry to organize his men to come to General Washingtons defense.</p><br>
<p>Upon learning this news, the congregation gathered around a white oak tree just outside the sanctuary. With hands joined, they vowed allegiance to the cause of the patriots, and their minister, Rev. Colin McFarquhar, who up until that time had always prayed for the King of England, united with them. From that time onward, the tree was known as the “Witness Tree.”</p><br>
<p>The original Witness Tree grew and flourished for nearly three centuries, but succumbed to disease. A cast iron memorial exists in its place now.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>Richard A. Snyder (1910-1992), Pennsylvania State Senator</p><br>
<p>Reinholds Station Trinity Chapel is an historic, American Sunday School chapel that is located at 114 East Main Street in Reinholds, Pennsylvania, West Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1898, this historic structure is a -story, red sandstone building that was designed in the Late Gothic Revival style. It is rectangular and measures thirty-two feet wide by fifty-two feet deep, and has a steeply pitched gable roof that is topped by a Gothic steeple with belfry and weather vane. It was built as a Union Sunday School chapel for Lutheran and Reformed congregations.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Bindnagle Evangelical Lutheran Church is a historic Evangelical Lutheran church located in North Londonderry Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1803 and is a two-story brick building measuring 36 by. It is in the Georgian style. Also on the property is a contributing cemetery, with the oldest burial dated to 1774.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>St. Luke&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 6th and Chestnut Streets in Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The cornerstone of the church was laid on St. Luke&#39;s Day, October 18, 1879 by Bishop Howe. The church was built in 1880. It was designed by New York architect Henry Martyn Congdon (1834–1922) in the Ruskinian gothic style. It was paid for by iron baron Robert Habersham Coleman and dedicated in memory of J. Lillie Coleman (née Clark), his recently deceased wife.</p><br>
<p>The building is in the form of a Latin Cross and constructed of native bluestone and sandstone.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The church was originally incorporated as "Christ Church, of Lebanon, Pa." in 1859, and admitted that year to the Convention of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. The name of the church was changed in 1865 to the current name, "St. Luke&#39;s".</p><br>
<p>The Tabor Reformed Church, also known as the Tabor United Church of Christ, is an historic, American Reformed church that is located at 10th and Walnut Streets in Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, it is currently the home of the LCBC (Lives Changed by Christ) Church.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic structure was built between 1792 and 1796, and is a -story, limestone building that measures forty-two feet by sixty-two feet. It has a four-story stone tower with spire, a slate-covered gable roof, and a chapel that was added in 1914.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Dillingersville Union School and Church is a historic church and school building located at Lower Milford Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1885, and is a one-story, rectangular fieldstone building measuring 52 feet by 30 feet. It has a gable roof topped with a frame bell cupola. The building ceased use as a school in 1941, and is used as a community museum and educational resource.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The High German Evangelical Reformed Church, also known as Zion Reformed and Zion United Church of Christ, is an historic Evangelical and Reformed church, located at 622 West Hamilton Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>During the American Revolutionary War, the church was selected as the site to hide and protect the Liberty Bell from seizure as British troops prepared the Philadelphia campaign, designed to attack and occupy the revolutionary capital in Philadelphia. The Liberty Bell was hidden beneath floor boards in the church for nine months, from September 1777 until the British ultimately departed Philadelphia in June 1778.</p><br>
<p>Until 2023, the church housed the Liberty Bell Museum, established to honor the role that Allentown and Lehigh Valley-area American patriots played in guarding the Liberty Bell.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>18th century</h3><br>
<p>Initially built as a log structure on its present-day site at 622 Hamilton Street in Center City Allentown in 1762, the original High German Evangelical Reformed Church building was replaced in 1773 with a simple brick structure, which was designed in a vernacular federal style and erected a few yards north of the first log church&#39;s location.</p><br>
<h4>Liberty Bell&#39;s hiding</h4><br>
<p>In September 1777, as American patriots prepared for a British Army attack on the colonial-era capital of Philadelphia, the Liberty Bell and other bells in Philadelphia were ordered taken down and then hastily transported to present-day Allentown, which was then called Northampton Towne, where they were successfully hidden under the church&#39;s floor boards until June 1778 when the British abandoned Philadelphia.</p><br>
<h3>19th century</h3><br>
<p>In 1838, when Zion Reformed was enlarged, contractors may have incorporated the 1762 structure into the walls of the current building&#39;s boiler room. The building was then enlarged further between 1886 and 1888 via gothic revival-style improvements made by architect Lewis Jacoby.</p><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>In 1983, in recognition of the churchs valuable contribution to the nations early history, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Liberty Bell Museum</h2><br>
<p>The church was home to the Liberty Bell Museum. The museum was located in the church&#39;s basement, which is where the Liberty Bell was hidden in 1777. The museum closed in 2023.</p><br>
<p>Forty Fort Meetinghouse is a historic meeting house at River Street and Wyoming Avenue in the Old Forty Fort Cemetery in Forty Fort, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1806–08 in a New England meeting house style with white clapboard siding and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first European settler in the area came from Connecticut in the late 18th century.</p><br>
<p>In 1768 public lands were set aside in the area for churches by the Susquehanna Company, but because of the Yankee-Pennamite Wars and the American Revolution actual building of the churches was delayed by over 30 years. An unfinished meetinghouse nearby was destroyed after the Battle of Wyoming in 1778.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Hitchcock of New Haven, Connecticut, who also designed the Old Ship Zion Church in Wilkes-Barre, designed the meetinghouse. It was the first completed church used for religious services in the area. It was a Union Church with both Congregationalist (now Presbyterians) and Methodists worshipping in the church. By 1837, both groups had built their own churches, and the meetinghouse has been used rarely since. In 1869, the Forty Fort Cemetery Association was created by the Pennsylvania state legislature and the Association still owns the church and cemetery.</p><br>
<p>40fortmeetinghouse habs.jpgInterior of the meetinghouse, looking toward the pulpit</p><br>
<p>Forty Fort Meeting House, Interior.jpgInterior of the meetinghouse</p><br>
<p>St. Gabriel&#39;s Catholic Parish Complex is a historic Roman Catholic church complex located at 122-142 S. Wyoming Street in Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania within the Diocese of Scranton.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The St. Gabriel&#39;s complex consists of the church (1925), rectory (1907-1908), and former convent (1937). The church is a high French Gothic Revival steel frame building clad in pink granite ashlar with Indiana limestone trim. It features twin bell towers with triple entrance portals at the front facade. The rectory is a three-story, wood-frame building in the Colonial Revival style. The convent was designed by architect Anthony J. DePace (1892–1977), and is a four-story building clad in granite ashlar and limestone. It was converted to affordable apartments and offices in 1998–1999. The church was founded in 1855. It merged with Annunciation Parish.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church and School Building is a historic former Roman Catholic church and school building at 419 N. Main Street in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania within the Diocese of Scranton.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1929, and is a three-story, red brick and cut stone building. It has a three bay front and measures 63 feet, 6 inches, wide and 124 feet, 2 inches deep. The school closed in 1971, and parish in 1994. Between 2000 and 2003, the building was renovated into 24 one-bedroom apartments.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>St. Stanislaus Institute, also known as St. Stanislaus Orphanage and Holy Child Church, is a historic former Roman Catholic orphanage complex located at 141 Old Newport Street in Newport Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania within the Diocese of Scranton.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The complex consists of three interconnected and three independent buildings built between 1918 and 1939, built originally for use as an orphanage for Polish children.</p><br>
<p>They are the Spanish Revival style boys dormitory (1918), Holy Child chapel (1939), laundry / boiler building, and rectory and garage. The facility closed in 1972.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>First Universalist Church of Sharpsville is a historic Universalist church located at 131 N. Mercer Avenue in Sharpsville, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States. The church was built between 1882 and 1884, and is a richly decorated brick and stone church building in a High Victorian Gothic style. It measures 52 feet by 42 feet and the interior takes the Akron plan. The property includes the parsonage; a two-story Queen Anne style dwelling built in 1888.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The Sharpsville Area Historical Society purchased the building in 2000 and is in the process of restoring it. The building serves as the Society&#39;s headquarters.</p><br>
<p>Zion Lutheran Church, also known as The Lutheran Church of Middle Smithfield, is a historic Lutheran church located in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area at Middle Smithfield Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1851, and is a one-story, brick building in a modified Greek Revival style. It is built of brick made by members of the congregation and has a slate covered front gable roof.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Old Norriton Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located in East Norriton Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1698, and is a one-story brownstone structure measuring 37 feet, 6 inches, by 27 feet, or three bays by two bays. It has a wooden shake gable roof and round-arch windows. The interior features a barrel vault ceiling.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house located at the corner of Germantown Pike and Butler Pike in Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Plymouth Meeting Historic District, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1708, and is constructed of native limestone. A wing was added in 1780, and the interior was rebuilt in 1867 following a fire. The porch was also added in 1867, and a rear wing added in 1945.</p><br>
<p>During the American Revolutionary War, the building served as a temporary military hospital. Troops under the Marquis de Lafayette camped on the grounds prior to the May 20, 1778 Battle of Barren Hill. The meeting house was a hub of activity during the Underground Railroad. Lucretia Mott lectured across the street at Abolition Hall, and is known to have attended the meeting. Artist and teacher Thomas Hovenden (1840–1895) was a member of the meeting and is buried in the adjacent cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Plymouth Meeting Friends School is under the care of the meeting and is located on site.</p><br>
<p>Several scenes in the historical novel The Quakeress (1905) by Max Adler take place in the meetinghouse.</p><br>
<p>St. Paul&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church at Old York and Ashbourne Roads in Elkins Park, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was originally built in 1861, and is a gray stone church in the Gothic style. The church was conceived by noted financier Jay Cooke , along with John W. Thomas, J.F. Peniston and William C. Houston. Its size was doubled with an expansion in 1870, and a 60-foot-tall tower added. A transept was added in 1883, and the two-story parish hall wing in 1891. Architect Horace Trumbauer  made some refinements to the church during the 1897 to 1924 period. The main sanctuary of the church features 13 stained glass windows from Tiffany studios.</p><br>
<p>Also on the property is the -story rectory built in 1868 and a stable. Jay Cooke Memorial hall (1906), and sexton&#39;s cottage (1923), were designed by architects Churchman & Thomas and Thomas, Martin & Kirkpatrick, respectively. (See Walter Horstmann Thomas.) Adjacent to the church is a cemetery laid out in 1879 and expanded in 1905. Located in the cemetery is the Jay Cooke mausoleum.</p><br>
<p>St. Paul&#39;s Episcopal Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Saint Pauls remains an active parish. The churchs sister organization, The Friends of St. Paul&#39;s Elkins Park, hosts a popular concert series featuring music from several genres including classical, jazz, and gospel.</p><br>
<p>Sanatoga Union Sunday School is a historic church in Lower Pottsgrove Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1891 as part of the Sunday school movement and added to the National Register in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Crooked Hill Sunday School first met in a local schoolhouse in 1865. In 1890, when the town of Crooked Hill changed its name to Sanatoga, the Sunday School changed its name as well. About the same time, townsfolk decided to build a separate Sunday School building as well. "Union" in the name signified that children from all Christian denominations, especially Baptist, Lutheran, and Reformed churches, were invited to attend.</p><br>
<p>Land was donated by Samuel Kurtz, and materials and labor were also donated to build the Sunday School building.</p><br>
<p>Packer Memorial Chapel  is a historic church on the campus of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Packer Memorial Chapel was designed by Philadelphia architect Addison Hutton, and built in 1885 when the university was affiliated with the Episcopal Church. It was donated by Mary Packer Cummings in memory of her father, Asa Packer. The cornerstone was laid on "the seventh Founders Day, October 8, 1885" and the consecration took place "Two years later, on the ninth Founders Day, October 13, 1887". The chapel was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Asa Packer, on the other hand, was buried in Mauch Chunk Cemetery, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, where his mansion was located.</p><br>
<p>Currently non-denominational, the chapel is operated by the Office of the University Chaplain. On Sundays, Roman Catholic mass is usually held at 12:10 pm and 9:10 pm in the chapel. On Fridays, Muslim prayers are held at 1:10 pm. The Church is also available for weddings in which at least one of the parties is a Lehigh University student or alumnus. It was also formerly the location of the freshman convocation, held during orientation at the beginning of each school year; however due to growing class size, convocations were moved to the larger Baker Auditorium in the Zoellner Arts Center, beginning in 2007.</p><br>
<p>"The Catacombs", was named on February 1, 1969 for a coffee house in the basement of the church. It soon became disused and was later a social meeting place for graduate student.</p><br>
<p>Asa Packer was buried in Mauch Chunk Cemetery, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, where his mansion was located.</p><br>
<p>Warrior Run Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at Delaware Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1835, and is a one-story, red brick building in the Greek Revival style. The front facade features a pedimented portico supported by four Doric order columns. The church was restored in 1947, by the Warrior Run chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Zion Stone Church, also known as Cornerstone Calvary Fellowship Inc., Augustaville, is a historic Lutheran and Reformed church on Tulpehocken Road in the hamlet of Augustaville, Rockefeller Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1814 and 1816, and is a two-story, reddish-brown stone building with an addition added in 2016 . It is an example of early-19th century Germanic style architecture. It was originally a one-story building; the second floor was added in 1861. Major repairs occurred in 1883, 1930, and 1936. Adjacent to the church is a cemetery with burials dating to 1793.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Sharon Springs Historic District is a national historic district located at Sharon Springs in Schoharie County, New York. The district includes 167 contributing buildings and nine contributing structures. It encompasses all of what remains of the historic mineral water spa, including commercial, institutional, and residential properties associated with its resort function during the period, ca. 1825–1941. The focus of the district is a group of mineral springs that together constitute the world-famous spa for which the village was named. Notable buildings include the Magnesia Temple , Chalybeate Temple , Lower Bath House , Inhalation Bath House , Imperial Bath House , Adler Hotel , and Roseboro Hotel . Also located in the district is the separately listed American Hotel.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Greenmead Historical Park, also known as Greenmead Farms, is a 3.2 acre historic park located at 38125 Base Line Rd., Livonia, Michigan. It includes the 1841 Greek Revival Simmons House, six other structures contributing to the historic nature of the property, and additional buildings moved from other locations. Greenmead Farms was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1825, twenty-three-year-old Joshua Simmons, along with his wife Hannah, moved from Bristol, New York to a 160 acre parcel of land in what is now Livonia. Simmons named his farm "Meadow Brook," and built a small log cabin on the property in 1826. in Livonia by the time of his death in 1882.</p><br>
<p>The Simmons family stayed on the farm until 1915. In 1920, the farm was purchased by Sherwin and Jean Boyd Hill, who renamed it "Greenmead." Hill raised dairy cattle at the farm until his death in 1961. The farm was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and the city of Livonia purchased in 1976 for use as a park, and moved other historic structures, including a number of pre-Civil War houses, onto the grounds. As of 2010, the property is open to the public.</p><br>
<h2>Description of the original farm complex</h2><br>
<p>The 1841 farmhouse is a two-story, Greek Revival frame house with side gables and clapboard siding, sitting on a stone foundation. Drip molding surmounts the windows, and Ionic pilasters flank the front door.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the house, nine of the original eleven outbuildings are still standing. These include the 1829 North Barn (the first barn built in Livonia), the farmhand&#39;s house (believed to be the original Simmons cabin), an additional barn and a greenhouse.</p><br>
<h2>Other structures moved to Greenmead</h2><br>
<p>Four additional structures built in the mid-19th century, collectively known as "the village," are located on the Greenmead grounds:</p><br>
<p>The eastern part of the park features seven more historic buildings, restored to the appearance they had in the 1915-1920 timeframe. This cluster of buildings mimics the actual intersection of Ann Arbor Trail and Newburgh Roads in Livonia. The seven buildings are:</p><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian Church is a historic church building in Columbia, South Carolina. Constructed in 1854, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 25, 1971.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Although the first meetings of what would become the First Presbyterian Church were held in 1795, the congregation did not have a building of its own until 1813, having met in the South Carolina State House and on the campus of the South Carolina College until then. In 1813, the South Carolina Legislature incorporated the church as the "First Presbyterian Church of the Town of Columbia"</p><br>
<p>The current site of the church was a shared cemetery with the local Episcopal congregation from 1794 to 1813. The legislature gave the cemetery and other lands to be shared between the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians. A local legend says that First Presbyterian and the now-nearby Trinity Episcopal Cathedral drew lots to determine which congregation would get what lot, with First Presbyterian receiving the cemetery, located at the corner of Lady and Marion Streets.</p><br>
<p>The 1813 building still exists, and is now known as Jackson Hall. A new, larger English Gothic structure was built in 1853. Though spared the torch during Shermans march to the sea, the buildings original 180-foot spire was destroyed in an 1875 hurricane, and rebuilt in 1888. The spire was again damaged in a 1910 fire, and rebuilt to be eight feet taller. A remodelling in 1925 increased the capacity of the building to 1,250 from 800, increasing the length of the building by 40 feet. At the same time, classrooms were built at the sides, a choir loft added in the rear, and the organ loft rebuilt. The architect of the remodelling project was R. H. Hunt of Chattanooga, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>Formerly a member of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, it seceded in 1983 and joined the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. Former pastors include James Henley Thornwell, Benjamin Morgan Palmer, John Giradeau, Sinclair Ferguson, and Derek Thomas. The current senior minister is Dr. Neil Stewart. Among the notable people buried in the church&#39;s cemetery are the parents of Woodrow Wilson; Henry William de Saussure, second director of the United States Mint</p><br>
<p>The Crozer Building is a historic building at 1420–1422 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built as the headquarters of the American Baptist Publication Society, and is sometimes called the American Baptist Publication Society building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On February 2, 1896, a disastrous fire razed the headquarters of the American Baptist Publication Society (ABPS) at 1420–1422 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition to destroying much of the property, records, and library of the ABPS, it also destroyed the archives of the American Baptist Historical Society which shared the ABPSs building. In the same year of that fire, the ABPS began construction of a new headquarters building on the same site. The new building, the Crozer Building, was named after the Crozer family, a prominent Baptist family who had a long history with the ABPS. One member of the family, Samuel Aldrich Crozer, served a term as the ABPSs president.</p><br>
<p>The Crozer Building was designed by the architectural firm of Frank Miles Day & Brother. It used a French Renaissance Revival style. After two years of construction, the new building officially opened in 1898. Part of the building was occupied earlier, with the ABHS moving into the new facility on November 17, 1897 before construction had been completed. The building was given a formal grand opening on February 17, 1898.</p><br>
<p>Along with Jacob Reed&#39;s Sons Store to the immediate west and the Packard Building on 15th Street, the building set the standard for commercial buildings on fashionable Chestnut Street. The Crozer Building included Griffith Hall, named for Dr. Benjamin Griffith, which was used as a place for public music concerts and other events from the 1890s through the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, in recognition of its significance as a national historical structure, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Free Quaker Meetinghouse is a historic Free Quaker meeting house at the southeast corner of 5th and Arch Streets in the Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1783, and is a plain 2&thinsp;-story brick building with a gable roof. The second floor was added in 1788. The building was moved about 30 ft to its present site in 1961, to allow for the widening of Fifth Street.</p><br>
<p>Quaker meetings were held in the building until 1836, after which it was occupied by the Apprentices&#39; Library Company of Philadelphia until 1897.</p><br>
<p>The meetinghouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church  is an historic church, which is located at 1500 Lombard Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, it also appears in the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places and the Pennsylvania State Historic Resource survey.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was founded on June 6, 1820. Worship began in a Carpenter&#39;s Shed at 521-527 Lombard Street while a brick church building was under construction.</p><br>
<p>In 1885, the congregation purchased an existing building and moved to its current location at 1500 Lombard Street. The church later commissioned a larger structure to accommodate a growing congregation.</p><br>
<p>Designed by architect George Savage, the church was built in 1926 in the Gothic Revival style with a corner bell tower, spire, and pointed arch windows with tracery. The main level is accessed through triple-portal doors which open to a foyer flanked on both sides by grand staircases. The church sanctuary is located on the second floor and contains a large U-shaped balcony and is brightly lit by stained glass windows on all sides.</p><br>
<p>"Big Wesley" has been a historical leader in the development of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church denomination and influential in civil rights and social reforms in the 1950s and 1960s.</p><br>
<p>The church continues to hold weekly worship service, bible study, and outreach ministry activities. The current pastor is Rev. Michael A. King. Former pastors include the Right Reverend Louis Hunter, Sr., 93rd Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It also appears in the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places and the Pennsylvania State Historic Resource survey.</p><br>
<p>Most Precious Blood Roman Catholic Church, Rectory and Parochial School is a historic Roman Catholic Church complex located at 2800–2818 Diamond Street in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school was built between 1908 and 1912, the rectory in 1914, and the church between 1924 and 1927.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It was demolished in 2023.</p><br>
<p>St. Johns Church, Northern Liberties was a historic church at 220–230 Brown Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1815 and is one of architect William Stricklands oldest surviving designs. The same year he also designed the Second Bank of the United States. The church is the seventh oldest surviving church in the state of Pennsylvania, not counting earlier Quaker meetinghouses.</p><br>
<p>In 1931 the church was consecrated as the Holy Trinity Romanian Orthodox Church and was sold by the Episcopalian parish to the Romanian community in 1972. Sometime before 1931, a wooden steeple was built above the entrance. In 1983 the church was added to the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Grace Church, Mt. Airy  is an historic Episcopal church, which is located at 224 East Gowen Avenue in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The church, its parish house and a rectory were designed by Charles M. Burns and built in 1888. Burns also designed the Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>A school was added in 1962.</p><br>
<p>The three original buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Rectors</h2><br>
<p>In the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, the rector is the priest elected to head a self-supporting parish.</p><br>
<p>The Rev. G. A. Redles (1874-1875)</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Simeon Hill (1875-1912)</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Thomas Sparks Cline (1913-1924)</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Charles E. Eder (1925-1958)</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Richard K. Bauder (1959-1989)</p><br>
<p>The Mennonite Meetinghouse  is an historic, American Mennonite church building that is located at 6119 Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The first settlers in Germantown in 1683 were Dutch or Germans recruited by William Penn. Most of the settlers had a Mennonite background but joined the Quaker meeting. Sometime around 1690, several families attended non-Quaker services; the subsequently built a log church in 1708. This church was the first Mennonite Church in America. William Rittenhouse was its first minister. The log church was replaced by the present church at the same site in 1770; the replacement was built by Jacob Knorr.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>St. Peter&#39;s Episcopal Church of Germantown is a historic church at 6000 Wayne Avenue in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1873 to the designs of Furness & Hewitt. George W. Hewitt likely was mainly responsible for the design, but the influence of Frank Furness is readily seen in the exuberant proportions of the steeple.</p><br>
<p>The church was built as part of the suburban development of the area by Henry H. Houston and Houston served as Church Warden for many years.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It is a contributing property of the Tulpehocken Station Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It is currently (2022) the campus of the Waldorf School of Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>The Nugent Home for Baptists is an historic, American, private charity building that is located at 221 W. Johnson Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to The New York Times of May 21, 1889:</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This Renaissance style building was constructed in 1895 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The building adjoins the Presser Home for Retired Music Teachers, which was also listed on the National Register in 2006. Nolen Properties owns both buildings and has completed restoration of the Presser building, and was working on the restoration of the Nugent building in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Monastery is a historic stone house in Philadelphia, located on Wissahickon Creek at Kitchens Lane.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1747 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The house&#39;s connection to monastic life is uncertain or simply legendary, but German mystic and hermit Johannes Kelpius lived nearby in the Wissahickon Valley from 1694 until his death in 1708, and connections with monks from Ephrata have been reported. According to the History of Philadelphia (1884):</p><br>
<p>...there is a recital in the deed that Joseph had since (1747) erected at his own cost and charges "a three-story stone house or messuage on a certain piece or spot of land." Joseph Gorgas was a member of the society of Seventh Day Baptists. It is conjectured that he erected this house for purposes of seclusion and meditation. It is said, "Hither were gathered congenial spirits like himself, and there they held sweet communion." A small strip of land below the county bridge is pointed out as the place where the monks were accustomed to administer the rite of baptism in the Wissahickon, and on the early township map the spot is designated as the Baptisterion. Joseph Gorgas sold the lot with the house, now called the "Monastery," to Edward Milner in 1761, and it has since gone through various hands. The house in which the unknown author of the "Chronicon" lived for seventeen months could not have been the stone mansion to which tradition affixes the title. There is no proof that Gorgas allowed his house to be used for monastic purposes, but novelists have made much of the legends and tales of hermits and monks that cluster thickly about the vicinity.</p><br>
<p>Baptist Institute for Christian Workers  is a historic building 1427 Snyder Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which has been used for several purposes and currently is a rehabilitation facility for veterans.</p><br>
<p>The unique late-Gothic Revival (Institutional Gothic) and Jacobean style building was constructed between 1911 and 1929 by Benjamin Rush Stevens for use as home to the Baptist Institute, a junior college, which later moved to Bryn Mawr and became known as Ellen Cushing Junior College. In 1952 the Navy started using the building, and in 1958 the building began use as a nursing home known as Crown Nursing Home and then later the Cambridge Retirement Community. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The building was renovated in 2013 and currently is used by the Veterans&#39; Administration at a 40-bed facility known as Snyder House for veterans recovering from homelessness and addictions.Christopher Mote,</p><br>
<p>"In South Philadelphia, A Baptist Rebirth As The Snyder House" Hidden City Philadelphia</p><br>
<p>September 17, 2013, (accessed 5/14/16) http://hiddencityphila.org/2013/09/in-south-philadelphia-a-baptist-rebirth-as-the-snyder-house/</p><br>
<p>Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, located at 38th and Ludlow Streets in West Philadelphia, is the cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Formerly known as the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Saviour, it was built in 1855, renovated in 1898, and rebuilt in the year 1906, after an April 16, 1902 fire.</p><br>
<p>In 1992 it became the seat of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>A highly-controversial renovation of the interior was undertaken, 2000–2002, under then-cathedral dean Richard Giles, author of Re-Pitching the Tent: Re-Ordering the Church Building for Worship and Mission. The pews, altar, and other church furniture were removed and sold and the decorated stone walls were stuccoed over and whitewashed. Modernist chairs and lighting fixtures in a severely minimalist style were introduced. The baptismal font was joined by an immersion pool for adults. These radical changes divided the congregation and were severely criticized in the press as cultural vandalism.</p><br>
<p>In 2012, facing an estimated $3.5 million bill to renovate its bell tower, then cathedral dean Judith Sullivan petitioned the Philadelphia Historical Commission for permission to demolish wholesale its brownstone Romanesque parish house and rectory, both NRHP-certified buildings. The demolition was approved and site completely filled with a 25-story apartment building which towers over the cathedral.</p><br>
<p>Dingmans Ferry Dutch Reformed Church is a historic Dutch Reformed church located on USA Route 209 in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area at Dingmans Ferry, Delaware Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania. It was designed in 1837, and built in 1850 in the Greek Revival style. It is a two-story, clapboard clad frame building with a gable roof. It features a large gabled portico supported by four heavy Doric order columns.</p><br>
<p>According to the National Park Service, "The Greek Revival style Dutch Reform Church was built in 1850. Its wooden colossal temple front with four heavy fluted columns mimics the stone architecture of ancient Greece. It was converted to a residence in 1957 and has been home to antiques dealer Doug Cosh since 1972. He has leased the property since 1986."</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Buffalo Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1846, and is a one-story, brick and wood-frame building, three bays wide and four bays deep. It features a full-width portico supported by four square columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>It is also known as the Old Buffalo Presbyterian Church and is listed as that on the American Presbyterian/Reformed Historic Sites Registry as its site # 271.</p><br>
<p>New Berlin Presbyterian Church, also known as New Berlin Community Center, is a historic Presbyterian church located at Vine and High Streets in New Berlin, Union County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1843, and is a one-story, brick building, three bays wide and four bays deep, in the Greek Revival style. It features a portico supported by four Doric order columns and an octagonal cupola. It has been used as a community center since 1933.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Allegheny Baptist Church, known since 1890 as the Free Methodist Church of Pleasantville, is a historic Baptist church located at Pleasantville, Venango County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1847 and 1849, and is a one-story, frame building, three bays by four bays, with a square tower. It features a wide, recessed front entrance. The tower includes a bell tower that rises 22 feet above the roof.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Irvine United Presbyterian Church is an historic Presbyterian church which is located in Brokenstraw Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1837, this historic structure is a one-story, fieldstone building with a gable roof which was designed in the Greek Revival style. It is three bays wide and three bays deep, measuring twenty-two feet by thirty-two feet.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Irvington PA Presby PHS278.jpgOn a pre-1923 postcard</p><br>
<p>Irvine United Presbyterian Church, July 2014.jpgIn 2014</p><br>
<p>Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church of Monongahela City is a historic church at the junction of 7th and Main Streets in Monongahela City, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1871 and added to the National Register in 2002.</p><br>
<p>It is a brick Gothic Revival style building, one of about five Gothic Revival buildings in the city.</p><br>
<p>It is designated as a historic public landmark by the Washington County History & Landmarks Foundation.</p><br>
<p>Mingo Creek Presbyterian Church and Churchyard is a church and historic location in Washington County, Pennsylvania. It is located at the junction of Pennsylvania Route 88 and Mingo Church Road in Union Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, near Courtney, Pennsylvania. It is a member of the Washington Presbytery.</p><br>
<p>The original log Presbyterian meetinghouse was built in 1793. The Mingo Creek Society, a group of dissidents founded in February 1794 that became involved in protest against the federal whiskey excise tax, met there. It would serve as a focal point in the development of the Whiskey Rebellion, even becoming the site of militia musters in the fight against federal forces. Some militia members are buried on the grounds, including Major James McFarlane, revolutionary war veteran, mortally wounded at the July 1794 battle of Bower Hill during the climax of the resistance of the Whiskey Rebellion at the residence of John Neville.</p><br>
<p>In the early years, the church was served by circuit-riding preachers who ministered to the early settlers of the era.</p><br>
<p>In 1994, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission installed a historical marker noting the historic importance of the location.</p><br>
<p>The current church, built in 1831, is a one and a half-story brick building, largely unadorned. It was renovated in 1904, with multi-paned stained glass replacing older windows in 1936. A manse (1924) and a two-story education building (1958) are also on the site but are not part of the national register boundary. The church yard/cemetery, on a high hill to the southwest of the church, contains dated tombstones from 1790.</p><br>
<p>St. Gertrude Roman Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church located at 311 Franklin Avenue in Vandergrift, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania within the Diocese of Greensburg.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>St. Gertrude church was designed by architect John T. Comes and built in 1911. It is a basilica plan church in the Italian Romanesque Revival style. The front façade features a central pavilion that slightly projects from two campanilles and a 13-light rose window.</p><br>
<p>The church grounds consist of three buildings: the church itself, a pastoral rectory, and Cardinal Maida Academy, which provides education for students from kindergarten through sixth grade. Between the church and school once stood a fourth building...a convent in use by the Benedictine Sisters, who taught at the school until the end of the 20th Century, when sisters were replaced by state-certified teachers to comply with federal and state Department of Education requirements. The convent was demolished in the early 21st Century, and the church parking lot has been expanded to the convent grounds.</p><br>
<p>Many of the Benedictine Sisters who taught at the school stayed in active ministry and were transferred to Benedictine Sisters of Pittsburgh, a merged convent in Bakerstown, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The front of the church bears the phrase "Adorate dominum in aula sancta ejus", which translated into English, means "Worship the Lord in his holy court."</p><br>
<p>The church also has a custom-designed, state-of-the-art electro-mechanical bell chime system designed by Schulmerich Carillons in Sellersville, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>St. Gertrude Church is also the administrator for Cardinal Maida Academy, originally known as "St. Gertrude School", located next to the Church at 315 Franklin Avenue in Vandergrift.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Guinston United Presbyterian Church is an historic Presbyterian church building which is located in Chanceford Township, Pennsylvania, York County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1773, the Guinston United Presbyterian Church is a one-story, fieldstone building with minimal ornamentation. It features paneled semi-circular inserts above the doors and rounded arch windows.</p><br>
<p>It replaced an earlier log church which had been built in 1754. By 1867, that structure was used as a Sabbath School while a new sanctuary was built nearby.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The York Meetinghouse is a historic, American Quaker meeting house that is located at 135 West Philadelphia Street in York, York 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 in 1766, this historic structure was expanded in 1783. The original building was a two-bay brick structure with a gable roof. The addition nearly doubled the size of the building. It is a two-bay brick structure with another entrance and window. The meeting house is still used for regular worship.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
