Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse

Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house and national historic district located at 1501 Old Wilmington Road in Hockessin, New Castle County, in the U.S. state of 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]

Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse
View from the northwest in 2014
Location1501 Old Wilmington Rd., Hockessin, Delaware
Coordinates39.792837°N 75.691009°W / 39.792837; -75.691009
Area5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built1738
NRHP reference No.73000510[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 20, 1973

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]

  • 1738 datestone
  • View from the south, 2014

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Graydon Wood and Rosemary Troy (June 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse". National Park Service. and accompanying three photos


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