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Bryn Gweled, Pennsylvania

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Bryn Gweled is a small community in Upper Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Described as an "intentionally cooperative community", Bryn Gweled consists of 78 privately owned homes on 240 acres (0.97 km2) of collectively owned land.The community was founded in 1940 by thirteen mostly Quaker families from the Philadelphia area. The name of the community means "Hill of Vision" in Welsh. The community maintains its founders' vision of collective responsibility, consensus-style management, and racial diversity, and has been cited as an example of community-based decision-making in action.Some of the house architecture was created by various students of the famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright such as Robert Forsythe Bishop and others who went on to have distinguished further careers. The homes are located on two acre plots, nestled into fields and forests, an oasis from the surrounding Philadelphia suburban sprawl. Several of the homes feature unique architectural elements such as heated floors, exposed wooden beams, wide open interior spaces, central fireplaces typical of organic architecture and Usonian homes.

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Bryn Gweled, Pennsylvania
Meadow Road, Upper Southampton Township

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Meadow Road 1761
18966 Upper Southampton Township
Pennsylvania, United States
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