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Building dated 1814.\nFrom Public Ledger - Philadelphia, Oct. 11, 1931. Photo accompanied by article on 250th anniversary celebration meeting. Caption: Beaver hats, bonnets, knee breeches and shawls were worn by a large number of Friends yesterday afternoon when they assembled at Providence Meeting House, Media, to hold a monthly meeting typical of two centuries ago.\nProvidence Monthly Meeting was established by the dissolution of the original Chester Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) in 1934. The meeting house and adjoining burial grounds (no longer used) were deeded to the new meeting in 1935. The records and business of the parent meeting were continued by Providence Monthly Meeting. In 1937, the meeting formed a united meeting by affiliation with the two Concord Quarterly Meetings. In 1955, Providence Monthly Meeting became part of the newly-formed Chester Quarterly Meeting. This is currently an active monthly meeting.

Building dated 1761.\nFrom Friends' Intelligencer, 5 mo. 22, 1937, p. 359. Fairfax Meeting House Waterford, Virginia (Baltimore Yearly meeting, Hicks.) Amos Janney, who went from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1773, settled near the place where the town of Waterford, Virginia, was built. Soon aftreward, other Friends came to taht locality and a meeting for worship was held at the janney home. A meeting house built in 1741 was called Fairfax, and the Fairfax Monthly Meeting was established in 1744. The present meeting house (shown above) was built in 1761. An addition was made in 1775. The house was burned i 1865, about the close of the Civil War, and rebuilt i n1868. This Meeting was discontinued in 1929, and its membrs transferred to Lincoln, or Goose Creek.\nFriends of Monocacy and Fairfax Preparative Meetings were given leave by Concord Quarterly Meeting to establish a monthly meeting in 8mo 1744. It first met in 6mo 1745, alternating between Fairfax and Monocacy meeting houses. The meeting continued to grow and Pipe Creek was set off as a monthly meeting in 1776; it included the Friends in Monocacy. In 1785, Fairfax was divided into two, Fairfax Monthly Meeting and a newly-established Goose Creek Monthly Meeting. At that time, Fairfax Monthly Meeting came under Warrington and Fairfax Quarterly Meeting. In 1787, the meeting remained under Fairfax Quarterly Meeting when Warrington and Fairfax Quarterly Meeting was reorganized. In 1789, the meeting was transferred from Philadelphia to Baltimore Yearly Meeting. During the Separation of 1828, the meeting remained with the Hicksite branch of Friends. The small number of Orthodox became part of Hopewell (Orthodox) by 1830. Fairfax faced a continued loss of membership to westward migration during the nineteenth century, and the meeting was laid down in 1926.

Building dated 1929.\nThe Westtown Indulged Meeting was established in 1799 by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting for the accommodation of the students of the Westtown Boarding School. Meetings for worship were held in the meeting-room of the main school building until 1929, when Westtown Monthly Meeting erected a one-story gray stone building on the grounds of Westtown School property. Since the erection of the meeting-house, the meeting worships in the new building. The meeting was set up originally for the convenience of teachers and students, and in 1920 when Westtown Monthly was set up this indulged meeting became a part of it.

Building dated 1781.\n"City to Acquire Old Friends Meeting House for Playground." The Sun, Baltimore Monday Morning April 27, 1925.\nFriends belonging to Patapsco Preparative Meeting, a subordinate of Gunpowder Monthly, changed the site of their meeting to the more rapidly growing Baltimore Town in 1781. With the consent of the parent Meeting and the Western Quarterly Meeting, Patapsco Preparative Meeting, now Baltimore Monthly Meeting, was established in 1792. In 1807, with an increase in membership, Baltimore Monthly was divided into two meetings: Baltimore Monthly Meeting, Western District, and Baltimore Monthly Meeting, Eastern District. In 1828, when Orthodox Friends separated from the Hicksites, they formed Baltimore Monthly Meeting for the Eastern and Western District. Originally this meeting met at the Cortland Street Meeting House. In 1867, the meeting moved to Eutaw Street. During this time the meeting was known as Baltimore Monthly Meeting, Orthodox. In 1922, the meeting again moved, this time to the Homewood Meeting House. By 1927, the meeting bore the name Baltimore Monthly meeting, Homewood.

Building dated 1832.\nIn Old Bellefonte. The centennial anniversary of Center County, which occurs to-day, will be celebrated later in the year in this town where Messrs. Dunlap and Harris settled more than 100 years ago. Friends Meetign House, one of the oldest buiodigns in Bellefonte. Baltimore Y.M.\nBeginning in the 1790s, a significant population of Friends resided in the Bellfonte area, and consigned to worship at Warrington and Centre meetings. This congregation eventually dissipated and its Orthodox members began attending Bellfonte Monthly Meeting. The Bellfonte Meeting House is no longer home to an active monthly meeting and has been significantly rennovated.

Two copies; both read: "Berkeley Meeting House, California. This photograph was sent for our Meeting House series by Ben Veysey King's Road, Southsea. By the car is William C. James, Clerk of Berkeley Meeting, and on the steps is Robert William Clark, who came to England during the War to visit concentration camps and the families of those interned." One reads: "The Friend (London) p. 472. Pacific Coast Association of Friends. May 22, 1936."\nThe first Monthly Meeting at Oakland took place in 1917, but seeing a need within the next few years, the decision was made to purchase a lot for a meeting space in Berkeley. In 1947 the contingency was officially indoctrinated as the Berkeley Society of Friends. It is currently an active Monthly Meeting.

Building dated 1790.\nInterior view of the building; The Morning Mercury, New Bedford, Mass. Thursday July 6. 1899.\nIn the area near New Bedford, the vast participation in worship mandated a new space, and in 1699 the first Meeting House for worship was built. In 1790, a new Meeting House was built at Apponagansett that still stands today. Members of the Smiths Neck Monthly Meeting would worship at Apponagansett, but Apponagansett Meeting remains under the jurisdiction of the Dartmouth Monthly Meeting.

Building dated 1696.\nFriends Intelligencer, Twelfth Month 3, 1938. Flushing Meeting House. \nThe first recorded friends meeting at Flushing was held in 1694. Its first meeting house was built in the same year, and the first New York Yearly Meeting was held there in 1696, and continued to meet there until it moved to New York City. The meeting house was expanded to its present size in 1714, and is still active for the Flushing Monthly meeting.

Building dated 1696. From Friends Intelligencer, 1 mo. 15, 1927, pp. 48-49. Flushing Meeting, L.I., N.Y. Flushing Meeting House and Grave Yard. The House was built 1692-94. When occupied by British soldiers during the Revolution it was used at different times as a hospital, a hay barn and as a prison. The first recorded friends meeting at Flushing was held in 1694. Its first meeting house was built in the same year, and the first New York Yearly Meeting was held there in 1696, and continued to meet there until it moved to New York City. The meeting house was expanded to its present size in 1714, and is still active for the Flushing Monthly meeting.

Building dated 1821/1824. The Old Friends' Meeting House. New Bedford, Mass. In 1792, New Bedford became a succinct monthly meeting from Dartmouth. It is currently an active monthly meeting.