Built in 1856 by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and what is now known as Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, a building 131 feet long by 80 feet wide was set fairly close to its Cherry Street frontage but sufficiently far back from Race Street to provide a pleasant open yard. The structure built was not just one meeting house, but two, so arranged and divided that either party could dispose of its property without affecting the property of the other. Construction brought two meeting rooms 36 feet high, the northern chamber being 60 feet by 80; the southern, 46 by 80. Each had "youth's galleries" on three sides. Between the two meetinghouses, and exceeding them by 16 feet in total width, was a 25-by-96-foot three-story structure containing large rooms for committee meetings and other purposes.[3]
^ abcFriends Center Corp., History of Friends Center 2007-10-13 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 27 November 2007.]
^A Century of Race Street Meeting House 1856-1956 by Frances Williams Browin
^National Park Service, National Historic Landmarks Program, Race Street Meetinghouse February 17, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 26 November 2007.
^Friends Center Corp., About Friends Center 2007-03-06 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 27 November 2007.
^Friends Center Corp., Directory of Tenant Organizations 2007-12-18 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 27 November 2007.
^Friends Center Corp., Mary Dyer Sculpture - A Witness to Quaker Testimonies 2007-10-14 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 27 November 2007.
^Gallery, John Andrew, ed. (2004), Philadelphia Architecture: A Guide to the City (2nd ed.), Philadelphia: Foundation for Architecture, ISBN0962290815, p. 165
Further reading
Browin, Frances Williams A Century of Race Street Meeting House 1856-1956, Philadelphia PA: Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends, 1956.
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