Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photographs

Thousands of images of Friends’ meeting houses have been brought together digitally in this online collection. Photographs from both the Quaker Collection of Haverford College and Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College are available here. The majority of these images come from within Philadelphia and New York Yearly Meetings, but also include pictures from across the United States and abroad.

Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
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Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House .-.
Title:
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House .-.
Description:
Building dated 1860. Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting: Exterior. New York Preparative Meeting was established in 1753 by Flushing Monthly. The Second Northern District meeting and the Southern District joined in 1881 and called themselves New York Preparative Meeting held at 15th Street. In 1958 the Orthodox branch, known as New York Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) until 1902 and as New York Congregational Meeting until the reunification, reunited with the Hicksites in 1958. In 1968 they changed their name to Fifteenth Street Preparative Meeting. It became a monthly meeting in 1975. This meeting house was built in 1860, and is still actively used by the meeting. These are blueprints of the meeting house. Second floor.
Date:
(approximate) 1900 - (approximate) 1999
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House .-.
Title:
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House .-.
Description:
Building dated 1860. Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting: Exterior. New York Preparative Meeting was established in 1753 by Flushing Monthly. The Second Northern District meeting and the Southern District joined in 1881 and called themselves New York Preparative Meeting held at 15th Street. In 1958 the Orthodox branch, known as New York Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) until 1902 and as New York Congregational Meeting until the reunification, reunited with the Hicksites in 1958. In 1968 they changed their name to Fifteenth Street Preparative Meeting. It became a monthly meeting in 1975. This meeting house was built in 1860, and is still actively used by the meeting. These are blueprints of the meeting house. Basement.
Date:
(approximate) 1900 - (approximate) 1999
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Title:
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Description:
Building dated 1860. Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting: Interior. New York Preparative Meeting was established in 1753 by Flushing Monthly. The Second Northern District meeting and the Southern District joined in 1881 and called themselves New York Preparative Meeting held at 15th Street. In 1958 the Orthodox branch, known as New York Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) until 1902 and as New York Congregational Meeting until the reunification, reunited with the Hicksites in 1958. In 1968 they changed their name to Fifteenth Street Preparative Meeting. It became a monthly meeting in 1975. This meeting house was built in 1860, and is still actively used by the meeting. This is an image of the interior.
Date:
(approximate) 1900 - (approximate) 1999
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Title:
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Description:
Building dated 1860. Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting: Interior. New York Preparative Meeting was established in 1753 by Flushing Monthly. The Second Northern District meeting and the Southern District joined in 1881 and called themselves New York Preparative Meeting held at 15th Street. In 1958 the Orthodox branch, known as New York Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) until 1902 and as New York Congregational Meeting until the reunification, reunited with the Hicksites in 1958. In 1968 they changed their name to Fifteenth Street Preparative Meeting. It became a monthly meeting in 1975. This meeting house was built in 1860, and is still actively used by the meeting. This is an image of the interior.
Date:
1968
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Title:
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Description:
Building dated 1860. Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting: Interior. New York Preparative Meeting was established in 1753 by Flushing Monthly. The Second Northern District meeting and the Southern District joined in 1881 and called themselves New York Preparative Meeting held at 15th Street. In 1958 the Orthodox branch, known as New York Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) until 1902 and as New York Congregational Meeting until the reunification, reunited with the Hicksites in 1958. In 1968 they changed their name to Fifteenth Street Preparative Meeting. It became a monthly meeting in 1975. This meeting house was built in 1860, and is still actively used by the meeting. This is an image of the interior.
Date:
1985
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Title:
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Description:
Building dated 1860. Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting: Exterior. New York Preparative Meeting was established in 1753 by Flushing Monthly. The Second Northern District meeting and the Southern District joined in 1881 and called themselves New York Preparative Meeting held at 15th Street. In 1958 the Orthodox branch, known as New York Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) until 1902 and as New York Congregational Meeting until the reunification, reunited with the Hicksites in 1958. In 1968 they changed their name to Fifteenth Street Preparative Meeting. It became a monthly meeting in 1975. This meeting house was built in 1860, and is still actively used by the meeting.
Date:
(approximate) 1900 - (approximate) 1999
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Title:
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Description:
Building dated 1860. Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting: Interior. New York Preparative Meeting was established in 1753 by Flushing Monthly. The Second Northern District meeting and the Southern District joined in 1881 and called themselves New York Preparative Meeting held at 15th Street. In 1958 the Orthodox branch, known as New York Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) until 1902 and as New York Congregational Meeting until the reunification, reunited with the Hicksites in 1958. In 1968 they changed their name to Fifteenth Street Preparative Meeting. It became a monthly meeting in 1975. This meeting house was built in 1860, and is still actively used by the meeting. This is an image of the interior.
Date:
1985
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Title:
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Description:
Building dated 1860. Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting: Interior. New York Preparative Meeting was established in 1753 by Flushing Monthly. The Second Northern District meeting and the Southern District joined in 1881 and called themselves New York Preparative Meeting held at 15th Street. In 1958 the Orthodox branch, known as New York Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) until 1902 and as New York Congregational Meeting until the reunification, reunited with the Hicksites in 1958. In 1968 they changed their name to Fifteenth Street Preparative Meeting. It became a monthly meeting in 1975. This meeting house was built in 1860, and is still actively used by the meeting. This is an image of the interior.
Date:
1968
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Title:
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Description:
Building dated 1860. Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting: Exterior. New York Preparative Meeting was established in 1753 by Flushing Monthly. The Second Northern District meeting and the Southern District joined in 1881 and called themselves New York Preparative Meeting held at 15th Street. In 1958 the Orthodox branch, known as New York Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) until 1902 and as New York Congregational Meeting until the reunification, reunited with the Hicksites in 1958. In 1968 they changed their name to Fifteenth Street Preparative Meeting. It became a monthly meeting in 1975. This meeting house was built in 1860, and is still actively used by the meeting.
Date:
(approximate) 1900 - (approximate) 1999
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Title:
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Description:
Building dated 1860. Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting: Exterior. New York Preparative Meeting was established in 1753 by Flushing Monthly. The Second Northern District meeting and the Southern District joined in 1881 and called themselves New York Preparative Meeting held at 15th Street. In 1958 the Orthodox branch, known as New York Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) until 1902 and as New York Congregational Meeting until the reunification, reunited with the Hicksites in 1958. In 1968 they changed their name to Fifteenth Street Preparative Meeting. It became a monthly meeting in 1975. This meeting house was built in 1860, and is still actively used by the meeting.
Date:
(approximate) 1900 - (approximate) 1999
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Title:
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Description:
Building dated 1860. Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting: Exterior. New York Preparative Meeting was established in 1753 by Flushing Monthly. The Second Northern District meeting and the Southern District joined in 1881 and called themselves New York Preparative Meeting held at 15th Street. In 1958 the Orthodox branch, known as New York Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) until 1902 and as New York Congregational Meeting until the reunification, reunited with the Hicksites in 1958. In 1968 they changed their name to Fifteenth Street Preparative Meeting. It became a monthly meeting in 1975. This meeting house was built in 1860, and is still actively used by the meeting.
Date:
(approximate) 1900 - (approximate) 1999
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Title:
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Description:
Building dated 1860. Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting: Interior. New York Preparative Meeting was established in 1753 by Flushing Monthly. The Second Northern District meeting and the Southern District joined in 1881 and called themselves New York Preparative Meeting held at 15th Street. In 1958 the Orthodox branch, known as New York Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) until 1902 and as New York Congregational Meeting until the reunification, reunited with the Hicksites in 1958. In 1968 they changed their name to Fifteenth Street Preparative Meeting. It became a monthly meeting in 1975. This meeting house was built in 1860, and is still actively used by the meeting. This is an image of the interior.
Date:
1985
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Title:
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Description:
Building dated 1860. Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting: Interior. New York Preparative Meeting was established in 1753 by Flushing Monthly. The Second Northern District meeting and the Southern District joined in 1881 and called themselves New York Preparative Meeting held at 15th Street. In 1958 the Orthodox branch, known as New York Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) until 1902 and as New York Congregational Meeting until the reunification, reunited with the Hicksites in 1958. In 1968 they changed their name to Fifteenth Street Preparative Meeting. It became a monthly meeting in 1975. This meeting house was built in 1860, and is still actively used by the meeting. This is an image of the interior.
Date:
(approximate) 1900 - (approximate) 1999
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Title:
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Description:
Building dated 1860. Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting: Interior. New York Preparative Meeting was established in 1753 by Flushing Monthly. The Second Northern District meeting and the Southern District joined in 1881 and called themselves New York Preparative Meeting held at 15th Street. In 1958 the Orthodox branch, known as New York Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) until 1902 and as New York Congregational Meeting until the reunification, reunited with the Hicksites in 1958. In 1968 they changed their name to Fifteenth Street Preparative Meeting. It became a monthly meeting in 1975. This meeting house was built in 1860, and is still actively used by the meeting. This is an image of the interior.
Date:
(approximate) 1900 - (approximate) 1999
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
Farmington Meeting House
Title:
Farmington Meeting House
Description:
Building dated 1816. Farmington Friends Meeting: Exterior. A meeting for worship at Farmington was mentioned as early as 1792, and was set off as a monthly meeting in 1803 from Saratoga. In 1796, Friends had built a log meeting house. This structure burned in 1803, and Quakers constructed a frame building the following year. In 1816 they outgrew the second building and constructed a larger meeting house, 47 by 60 feet, which still stands. The present Farmington Friends Church was built as an Orthodox meeting house in 1876. From the J. R. B. Moore Collection. [Photo by?] E. J. G[ar]dner. Photograph of people, man on bicycle, festive decorations: probably Grangers Fair, held in Farmington Meeting House.
Date:
1917
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Title:
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Description:
Building dated 1860. Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting: Interior. New York Preparative Meeting was established in 1753 by Flushing Monthly. The Second Northern District meeting and the Southern District joined in 1881 and called themselves New York Preparative Meeting held at 15th Street. In 1958 the Orthodox branch, known as New York Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) until 1902 and as New York Congregational Meeting until the reunification, reunited with the Hicksites in 1958. In 1968 they changed their name to Fifteenth Street Preparative Meeting. It became a monthly meeting in 1975. This meeting house was built in 1860, and is still actively used by the meeting. This is an image of the interior.
Date:
(approximate) 1900 - (approximate) 1999
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
Farmington Meeting House
Title:
Farmington Meeting House
Description:
Building dated 1816. Farmington Friends Meeting: Exterior. A meeting for worship at Farmington was mentioned as early as 1792, and was set off as a monthly meeting in 1803 from Saratoga. In 1796, Friends had built a log meeting house. This structure burned in 1803, and Quakers constructed a frame building the following year. In 1816 they outgrew the second building and constructed a larger meeting house, 47 by 60 feet, which still stands. The present Farmington Friends Church was built as an Orthodox meeting house in 1876. From the collection of E. Z. Palmer. Exterior photograph with people and horse-drawn carriage.
Date:
(approximate) 1880 - (approximate) 1910
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Title:
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Description:
Building dated 1860. Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting: Interior. New York Preparative Meeting was established in 1753 by Flushing Monthly. The Second Northern District meeting and the Southern District joined in 1881 and called themselves New York Preparative Meeting held at 15th Street. In 1958 the Orthodox branch, known as New York Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) until 1902 and as New York Congregational Meeting until the reunification, reunited with the Hicksites in 1958. In 1968 they changed their name to Fifteenth Street Preparative Meeting. It became a monthly meeting in 1975. This meeting house was built in 1860, and is still actively used by the meeting. This is an image of the interior.
Date:
(approximate) 1900 - (approximate) 1999
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Title:
Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting House
Description:
Building dated 1960. Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting: Exterior. New York Preparative Meeting was established in 1753 by Flushing Monthly. The Second Northern District meeting and the Southern District joined in 1881 and called themselves New York Preparative Meeting held at 15th Street. In 1958 the Orthodox branch, known as New York Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) until 1902 and as New York Congregational Meeting until the reunification, reunited with the Hicksites in 1958. In 1968 they changed their name to Fifteenth Street Preparative Meeting. It became a monthly meeting in 1975. This meeting house was built in 1860, and is still actively used by the meeting.
Date:
(approximate) 1900 - (approximate) 1999
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections
Farmington Friends Church
Title:
Farmington Friends Church
Description:
Building dated 1876. Farmington Friends Church: Exterior. A meeting for worship at Farmington was mentioned as early as 1792, and was set off as a monthly meeting in 1803 from Saratoga. In 1796, Friends had built a log meeting house. This structure burned in 1803, and Quakers constructed a frame building the following year. In 1816 they outgrew the second building and constructed a larger meeting house, 47 by 60 feet, which still stands. The present Farmington Friends Church was built as an Orthodox meeting house in 1876. Gift of Wilmer Lundy, October 1966.
Date:
1966
Collection:
Friends Historical Library collection of meetinghouse photograph collections

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