Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse
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Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse | |
 View from the northwest in 2014 | |
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| Location | 1501 Old Wilmington Rd., Hockessin, Delaware |
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| Coordinates | 39°47′34″N 75°41′28″W / 39.792837°N 75.691009°WCoordinates: 39°47′34″N 75°41′28″W / 39.792837°N 75.691009°W |
| Area | 5 acres (2.0 ha) |
| Built | 1738 |
| NRHP Reference # | 73000510[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 20, 1973 |
Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house and national historic district located at 1501 Old Wilmington Road in Hockessin, New Castle County, Delaware. The district encompasses three contributing buildings and one contributing site. The meeting house was built in 1738. In 1973 it was a one-story white plastered stone building with a gable roof.[2] Photographs taken in 2014 show the plaster has been removed from the stone. It has a gable roof with projecting cornice and a crown moulding at the roof line. The other contributing buildings are a stable and a frame storehouse and a stone house dated to 1817. The contributing site is the cemetery.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]
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1738 datestone
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View from the south, 2014
References
- 1 2 Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- 1 2 Graydon Wood and Rosemary Troy (June 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse" (PDF). National Park Service. and accompanying three photos
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