Keywords: Little Abington Orthodox 1836.jpg en Little Abington Friends Orthodox Meeting House Library of Congress metadata follows Title Abington Orthodox Friends Meetinghouse Jenkintown Road across from Fisher Road Jenkintown Montgomery County PA Other Title Little Abington Meetinghouse Creator s Historic American Buildings Survey creator Related Names Price Virginia Barrett transmitter Boucher Jack E photographer Lavoie Catherine C historian Date Created/Published Documentation compiled after 1933 Medium Photo s 17 Color Transparencies 2 Data Page s 4 Photo Caption Page s 2 Reproduction Number --- Rights Advisory No known restrictions on images made by the U S Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted http //www loc gov/rr/print/res/114_habs html Call Number HABS PA-6657 Repository Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington D C 20540 USA http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/pp print Notes Significance Built in 1836 Abington Friends Meeting House reflects patterns of design found in the single-cell meeting house built during the period of early settlement in the Delaware Valley but not frequently seen since the late-eighteenth century development of a prototypical two-celled form It was erected following the schism that divided the Friends of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and elsewhere into Orthodox and Hicksite factions an event that occurred within the former meeting in 1827 The split caused a boom in meeting house construction as the dissenting group left to form their own meetings Although Abington Orthodox Meeting House has been abandoned and is currently in a deteriorating condition it is the only post-schism Orthodox-built meeting house that has not been rehabilitated for use as something other than a meeting house Survey number HABS PA-6657 Building/structure dates 1836 Initial Construction Subjects Friends meeting houses stone buildings Quakers religious services building deterioration Place Pennsylvania -- Montgomery County -- Jenkintown Collections Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey Part of Historic American Buildings Survey Library of Congress Bookmark This Record http //www loc gov/pictures/item/pa3809/ 2007-08-06 14 37 17 http //www loc gov/pictures/item/pa3809 color 215084c/resource/ Historic American Buildings Survey other versions PD-USGov Jenkintown Pennsylvania Quaker meeting houses in Pennsylvania |