Chester Heights Camp Meeting Historic District
{{short description|Historic district in Pennsylvania, United States}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox NRHP
| name = Chester Heights Camp Meeting Historic District
| nrhp_type = hd
| nocat = yes
| image = ChesterCampground.JPG
| caption = Chester Heights Camp Meeting, November 2009
| location = 320 Valley Brook Rd., Chester Heights, Pennsylvania
| coordinates = {{coord|39|53|24|N|75|28|03|W|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin = Pennsylvania#USA
| built = 1872
| architect OR builder =
| architecture = Gothic Revival, Queen Anne
| added = May 8, 2001
| area = {{convert|30.9|acre}}
| refnum = 01000460{{NRISref|version=2010a}}
}}
The Chester Heights Camp Meeting Historic District is a historic Methodist camp meeting and national historic district located in Chester Heights, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The district includes 101 contributing buildings, which were designed in the vernacular camp meeting style of architecture; additional notable examples of the Gothic Revival and Queen Anne styles also are present here. Public buildings include the contributing Tabernacle (1878), Dining Hall (1900), Youth Tabernacle (1909, and dormitory. Most of the contributing buildings are cottages, which were built roughly between 1876 and 1920.{{cite web| url = https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp| title = National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania| publisher = CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System| format = Searchable database| access-date = January 16, 2012| archive-date = July 21, 2007| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070721014609/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp| url-status = dead}} Note: This includes {{cite web| url = {{NRHP-PA|H016714_01H.pdf}}| title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Chester Heights Camp Meeting Historic District| accessdate = 2012-01-16| author = Robert J. Wise, Jr.| format = PDF| date = December 2000}}
In two separate incidents in 2011 and early 2012, the Tabernacle and multiple cottages were burned in arson incidents.{{cite web|last1=Scharr|first1=Cindy|title=Cops: Chester Heights Camp Meeting fire ignited by burning American flags, leaves|url=http://www.delcotimes.com/article/DC/20120109/NEWS/301099950|website=www.delcotimes.com|date=June 14, 2000 |accessdate=29 June 2017}} In 2016 part of the property was sold to be developed as an apartment complex.{{cite web|last1=Stark|first1=Kenn|title=Chester Heights protests apartment proposal with record turnout|url=http://www.delconewsnetwork.com/garnetvalleypress/news/chester-heights-protests-apartment-proposal-with-record-turnout/article_02b1e345-3790-5717-9596-74403a034db3.html|website=www.delconewsnetwork.com|accessdate=29 June 2017}}
History
In 1872, an association of Methodists purchased land and incorporated under the title Chester-Heights Camp-Meeting Association.{{cite book|last1=Ashmeade|first1=Henry Graham|title=History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania|date=1884|publisher=L.H. Everts & Co.|location=Philadelphia|page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924006215655/page/n344 301]|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924006215655|accessdate=29 June 2017}}
=Placement of this district on the National Register of Historic Places=
The NRHP nomination application for the Chester Heights Camp Meeting Historic District was formally reviewed by Pennsylvania's Historic Preservation Board at its March 13, 2001 meeting at 9:45 a.m. at the State Museum in Harrisburg. Also considered for NRHP status at this time were the: Protection of the Flag Monument in Athens, Pennsylvania; Normandy Farm, George K. Heller School, and Upper Roxborough Historic District in Montgomery County; Awbury Historic District and Harris/Laird, Schober & Company Building in Philadelphia; Michael Derstine Farmstead in Bucks County; John Nicholas and Elizabeth Moyer House in Berks County; William Shelly School and Annex in York County; and the Zeta Psi Fraternity House in Northampton County.Chester Heights Camp Meeting Historic District, in "[https://www.pabulletin.com/secure/data/vol31/31-6/31_6_not.pdf Historical and Museum Commission: National Register Nominations to be Considered by the Historic Preservation Board]," in Pennsylvania Bulletin, Vol. 31, No. 6, February 10, 2001, p. 893. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, retrieved online October 12, 2019.
The Chester Heights Camp Meeting Historic District was then officially added to the National Register of Historic Places later in 2001.
=Later history=
References
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External links
- [http://www.ch-campmeeting.org/ Chester Heights Campmeeting Association website]
{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania}}
Category:Gothic Revival architecture in Pennsylvania
Category:Queen Anne architecture in Pennsylvania
Category:Religious buildings and structures completed in 1878
Category:Historic districts in Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Delaware County, Pennsylvania