Excerpt from The Friends’ Meeting-House, Fourth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia: A Centennial Celebration, Sixth Month Fourth, 1904
An interesting feature of the occasion was an exhibit of historical pictures from the col lection of George V aux, embracing those of a number of early Friends’ meeting-houses (some of which were water-colors), and including a pen-and-ink drawing of Fairhill M cetin’g-house and a rough pencil sketch of the meeting-house erected by the followers of George Keith. The last two are believed to represent the two earliest structures of the kind of which pictures have been preserved. There was also a colored drawing of Arch Street, west from Third to midway between Fourth and Fifth Streets, showing its appearance at the time of the erection of the oldest part of the meeting-house, including the residences of several Friends’ families then living there. In addition there was a water-color painting of the domicile of another Friend who resided in that street.
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