Plymouth_Meeting_Historic_District

Plymouth Meeting Historic District

Plymouth Meeting Historic District

Historic district in Pennsylvania, United States

Plymouth Meeting Historic District is a national historic district that straddles Plymouth and Whitemarsh Townships in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The adjacent Cold Point Historic District is north of it.

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The district encompasses 200 acres (81 ha) and includes 56 contributing buildings in the historic core of Plymouth Meeting. Among these are the separately-listed Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse (1708); Hinterleiter House (c.1714); Livezey House and Store (c.1740–1788); Hovenden House, Barn and Abolition Hall (c.1795, 1856); and Plymouth Meeting Country Store and Post Office (c.1827).[2]

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.[1]

Plymouth Meeting House is the name of a village situated at the intersection of the Plymouth and Perkiomen turnpikes, on the township line. On this [Plymouth] side is the meeting house, school house and four houses; and in Whitemarsh two stores, a blacksmith and wheelwright shop, post office and twenty-four houses. The houses in this village are chiefly situated along the Perkiomen or Reading pike, nearly adjoining one another, and being of stone, neatly white washed, with shady yards in front, present to the stranger an agreeable appearance. In the basement of the Library building the Methodists hold worship. This is an ancient settlement, whose history dates back nearly to the arrival of William Penn, and is marked as a village on Lewis Evans' map of 1749. The post office was established here before 1827. In 1832 there were but ten houses here. — History of Montgomery County (1858).[3]

Contributing properties (alphabetical by street)

Separately NRHP-listed properties are shaded in blue.

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References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [2]
    "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Edward F. LaFond, Jr. (July 1970). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Plymouth Meeting Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved May 24, 2012.
  3. [3]
    William J. Buck, History of Montgomery County within the Schuylkill Valley (Norristown, PA: E. L. Acker, 1859), p. 81.
  4. [4]
    Journey's End data from the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings (PAB) project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia
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    G. M. Hopkins & Co., Atlas of the County of Montgomery and the State of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: 1871), plate 27 inset.
  6. [6]
    Maulsby-Albertson Family Papers, 1763-1884, RG 5/099, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
  7. [7]
    Jones-Williams House data from PAB
  8. [8]
    Jonathon Jones House data from PAB
  9. [9]
    Hitner Residence data from PAB
  10. [10]
    Theodore Weber Bean, History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Volume 2 (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1884), p. 1143.
  11. [11]
    Killmer Dwelling data from PAB
  12. [12]
    Joseph R. Ellis House data from PAB
  13. [13]
    "Memorial of Joel Lare," The Friend, vol. 71, no. 31 (February 19, 1898), p. 242.
  14. [14]
    Plymouth Meeting Evangelical Congregational Church data from PAB
  15. [15]
    Theodore Weber Bean, History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Volume 2 (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1884), p. 1148.
  16. [16]
    Willaman Residence data from PAB
  17. [17]
    Norney House data from PAB
  18. [18]
    John Knight House data from PAB
  19. [19]
    Elizabeth Williams House data from PAB
  20. [20]
    Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse data from PAB
  21. [21]
    Elwood Roberts, Plymouth Meeting: Its Establishment and the Settlement of the Township (Norristown, PA: Roberts Publishing Co., 1900), p. 74.
  22. [22]
    William Jeanes Memorial Library data from PAB
  23. [23]
    Leedom House data from PAB
  24. [24]
    Theodore Weber Bean, History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Volume 1 (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1884), p. 647.
  25. [25]
    Dwelling data from PAB
  26. [26]
    Archbishop Thomas Kennedy Birthplace data from PAB
  27. [27]
    Marple House data from PAB
  28. [28]
    Plymouth School House data from PAB
  29. [29]
    Kirk Residence data from PAB
  30. [30]
    Linden Grove data from PAB
  31. [31]
    Kaitlyn Foti, "Montgomery County grant aids Plymouth Township in buying historical property," Pottstown Mercury, October 11, 2016.
  32. [32]
    Hinterleiter House data from PAB
  33. [33]
    Janet S. Klein, Dickinson/Albertson Farmstead of the Plymouth Meeting Historical Society (National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1987).
  34. [34]
    The Albertson Farm House, from Plymouth Meeting Historical Society.
  35. [35]
    Jacob Deeves Residence data from PAB
  36. [36]
    Maple Hill data from PAB
  37. [37]
    Nancy Corson Cresson,"Dr. Hiram Corson," Bulletin of the Historical Society of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, vol. 1, no. 3 (October 1937), p. 4.
  38. [38]
    Livezey House data from PAB
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