Owner: Trustees for the Arney's Mount Meeting of the Society of Friends Present Use: Meeting House for religious worship Significance: Arney's Mount Friends Meeting House, erected of local Bog Iron stone between

1775 and 1776, is not readily discerned from vernacular residences of the area. While similarities with indigenous architecture is indicative of meeting house design, Arney's Mount represents a particularly domestic-looking form. The development of this meeting house form was likely a factor of meeting size, being all that was necessary to accommodate a small, rural meeting. It is reflected in additional meeting houses within Burlington Quarter, but is otherwise with few contemporary counterparts in the Delaware Valley. Its two-story, three-bay configuration is not completely without precedent, however. It may have been derived from a significant early building type, as represented by an extant rendering of the Second Bank Meeting House, erected in Philadelphia in 1703.1 Among the identifying features of the later derivative seen at Arney's Mount is the lack of the interior partition that traditionally separated concurrent meetings for men's and women's business. Instead, a shuttered gallery may have served to fulfill that function until 1850, when the meeting no longer found it necessary to conduct business meetings separately