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The Quakertown Historic District is a historic district which includes most of Quakertown, Pennsylvania. It encompasses, 386 acres and 2,197 contributing buildings. It encompasses, 386 acres and 2,197 contributing buildings.
English: Area view of the Quaker Meeting House in Quakertown, New Jersey. Key contributing property #49 of the Quakertown Historic District . This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America .
The Quaker Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house at the intersection of Quakertown Road and White Bridge Road in the Quakertown section of Franklin Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. In 1733, Quaker settlers acquired four acres of land here and built a log house for their first meeting house. A stone church was built here in 1754.
Quakertown is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.As of 2020, it had a population of 9,359. [3] The borough is 15 miles (24 km) south of Allentown and Bethlehem and 40 miles (64 km) north of Philadelphia, making Quakertown a border town of both the Delaware Valley and Lehigh Valley metropolitan areas.
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Built in 1772 as the first permanent residence in Quakertown, this historic structure is a two-story, 15 feet (4.6 meters) by fifteen-foot building with one room per floor. It was built using native fieldstone and has a half gambrel roof. It represents a simple colonial Quaker style of design. [2]
Charles Draper Faulkner (March 11, 1890 – December 31, 1979) was a Chicago-based American architect renowned for the churches and other buildings that he designed in the United States and Japan. He designed over 33 Christian Science church buildings and wrote a book called Christian Science Church Edifices .
The Faux Faulkner contest was an annual parody essay contest founded in 1989 by Dean Faulkner Wells, niece of Nobel laureate William Faulkner, with her husband Lawrence Wells, and sponsored by Yoknapatawpha Press and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. [1] It was held 16 times until 2005. [2]