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The Arch Street Meeting House is a landmark building within the over 100 monthly meetings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, Friends would come from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s four-state geographic area to conduct annual business at its midsummer “sessions”.
Also used for meetings of the Pennsylvania General Assembly and Provincial Council. [17] W. side of Front Street, btw. Race & Vine Streets, Philadelphia: Bank Meeting House [f] 1703 A large two-story, three-bay brick building, 50 ft (15 m) square, with separate entrances for men and women. [18]: 28 Built using salvaged materials from the demolished
The meeting hall served as a hospital for both British and American troops in the American Revolutionary War, and other Philadelphia institutions have held meetings in Carpenters' Hall, including Ben Franklin's Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Philosophical Society, and the First and Second Banks of the United States.
The Race Street Meetinghouse is an historic and still active Quaker meetinghouse at 1515 Cherry Street in the Center City area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [2] The meetinghouse served as the site of the Yearly Meeting of the Hicksite sect of the Religious Society of Friends, known as the Quakers, from 1857 to 1955.
The original portion of the Frankford Preparative Friends Meeting House was built in 1775–76, making it the oldest Friends meeting house in Philadelphia. Although meeting houses were constructed in the region as early as the city's founding in the 1680s, most were replaced by the nineteenth century.
The Free Quaker Meetinghouse is a historic Free Quaker meeting house at the southeast corner of 5th and Arch Streets in the Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1783, and is a plain 2 1 ⁄ 2-story brick building with a gable roof. The second floor was added in 1788.
Arch Street Friends Meeting House. June 23, 2011 Center City 302–338 Arch Street ... Edwin Forrest House, first home of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, ...
The new Quaker meeting house is the first to be built in Philadelphia in eighty years. [2] The Meeting House is an active center for worship and the activities of the Monthly Meeting. [3] Since 1955, it has been a part of the Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting. [4] The meeting has participated in the Yearly Meetings of Friends.