Chester Heights Camp Meeting Historic District

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Chester Heights Camp Meeting Historic District
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Chester Heights Camp Meeting, November 2009
Chester Heights Camp Meeting Historic District is located in Pennsylvania
Chester Heights Camp Meeting Historic District
Location 320 Valley Brook Rd., Chester Heights, Pennsylvania
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Area 30.9 acres (12.5 ha)
Built 1872
Architectural style Gothic Revival, Queen Anne
NRHP Reference # 01000460[1]
Added to NRHP May 8, 2001

Chester Heights Camp Meeting Historic District is a historic Methodist camp meeting and national historic district located at Chester Heights, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 101 contributing buildings. The buildings are in a vernacular camp meeting style of architecture, with notable examples of the Gothic Revival and Queen Anne styles. Public buildings include the contributing Tabernacle (1878), Dining Hall (1900), Youth Tabernacle (1909, and dormitory. Most of the contributing buildings are cottages, built starting in 1876 and until about 1920.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.[1] In two separate incidents in 2011 and early 2012, the Tabernacle and multiple cottages were burned in an arson. [1][2] In 2016 part of the property is set to become an apartment complex. [3]

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