Notes on the Free Quaker Meeting House, Fifth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, Built 1783-84
by Peterson, Charles E
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1931839204
- ISBN 13
- 9781931839204
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About This Item
Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Ross & Perry, 2002. This book is an architectural history of the Free Quaker Meeting House on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, built by the Religious Society of Free Quakers, a small group of Philadelphia Quakers who rejected the pacifist tenets of their faith in order to support the War for Independence; the book is a reprint, with several additions, of a report originally prepared by the author, a former architect for the National Park Service, prior to the movement and restoration of the Meeting House; it includes a narrative of the construction and subsequent history of the Meeting House followed by illustrations and architectural drawings (pictorial cover with color photo of the Meeting House on the front, very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Trade Paperback. Very Good.
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- Title
- Notes on the Free Quaker Meeting House, Fifth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, Built 1783-84
- Author
- Peterson, Charles E
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1931839204
- ISBN 13
- 9781931839204
- Publisher
- Ross & Perry
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2002
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History;
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