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Newtown Friends Meetinghouse and Cemetery

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NRHP Reference #
  
77001129

Phone
  
+1 215-968-1655

Added to NRHP
  
21 July 1977

Area
  
1 ha

Year built
  
1817

Burials
  
Edward Hicks

Newtown Friends Meetinghouse and Cemetery

Location
  
Court St., Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Address
  
219 Court St, Newtown, PA 18940, USA

Similar
  
Buckingh Friends Meeting, Yardley Friends Meeting, Fallsington Friends Meeting, Wrightsto Friends Meeting, Middletown Friends Meeting

Newtown Friends Meetinghouse and Cemetery is a historic Quaker meetinghouse and cemetery in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1817, and is a two-story, stuccoed stone building with a gable roof. It measures 60 feet by 40 feet, 6 bays long and 3 bays deep. A one-story porch was added in 1866, and the second floor was added in 1900. Also on the property is a contributing horse shed, built in 1819. Adjacent to the meeting house is the contributing cemetery.

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

Notable interments

  • Edward Hicks (1780–1849), Quaker minister and American folk artist
  • Michael Hutchinson Jenks (1795–1867), U.S. Congressman
  • References

    Newtown Friends Meetinghouse and Cemetery Wikipedia