Subject Portal » Religion » Course Guides »
Need Help?
- Ann Upton, Quaker Bibliographer & Special Collections Librarian (HC)
Related Subjects:
Databases A-Z:
Other:
Religion 1O3A : Historic Philadelphia Meeting Houses
Historic Philadelphia Quaker Meeting Houses:
Byberry Preparative and Monthly Meeting
3001 Byberry/Southampton Road
Free Quaker Meeting House
500 Arch Street
Germantown Monthly Meeting
47 W. Coulter St.
The Great Meeting House (High Street Meeting)
SW corner of 2nd and Market Streets
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting
4th and Arch Streets
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Western District
S. 12th St. and Chestnut (now at the George School, Newtown PA)
Race Street Meeting House
15th and Race, today part of Friends Center
Frankford Preparative/Monthly Meeting
4371 Waln St. and Unity Street
General Quaker resources can be found on the Quaker Studies Subject Portal from the library main page.
See:
Quaker Studies Subject Portal
Additional helpful resources for this assignment are:
Primary:
Dictionary of Quaker Biography – for easy and informative identification of individuals, including references for further study. In Special Collections, Magill Library.
Historic American Buildings Survey – for historical and architectural information, including photographs. In Special Collections, Magill Library.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting house Photographs, Collection 911. See inventory in Special Collections, Magill Library.
Quaker Manuscript Collections - letters, journals, accounts of colonial Quakers; available in Special Collections.
Records of the Meetings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting - located at Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges.
Secondary (check their bibliographies for primary resources):
Genres of worldliness
Publisher: 1997.
Meanings of the meeting house for Philadelphia Friends, 1755-1830
History.
Publisher: Moorestown, N.J. : [s.n.] 1938.
Historical sketches of meetings comprising Philadelphia Quarter, and Philadelphia Yearly including hand-colored maps.
Inventory of church archive
Publisher: Philadelphia : Distributed through the Friends' book store, and the Friends' central bureau, 1941.
Histories of the various meeting houses in Philadelphia that have ever exisited.
Guide to the records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Publisher: [Haverford, PA] : Haverford College ; 1989.
Silent witness
Publisher: [Philadelphia, Pa.] : Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, [2002]
Quaker meetinghouses in the Delaware Valley, 1695 to the present / Historic American Buildings Survey recording of Friends meetinghouses within the region of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Penn's great town
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1961]
250 years of Philadelphia architecture illustrated in prints and drawings.
Philadelphia Quakers, 1681-1981
Publisher: Philadelphia : Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1981.
Hints:
When searching for information on Quakers also search on the terms "Society of Friends" and "Religious Society of Friends"
Try these subject headings:
When searching for information on Quakers also search on the terms "Society of Friends" and "Religious Society of Friends"
Try these subject headings:
Quaker church buildings – Pennsylvania – Philadelphia
Historic buildings – Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
Historic buildings – Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
For much more information and research help contact: