the Merion Meeting Campus

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activities building

The Activities Building was built in 1949 and hosts many community events. To schedule use of the building, click here.
Most importantly for the Quakers using the Meeting house, the bathrooms and modern plumbing are in this building!
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burying ground

The burying ground contains the remains of many members of the Meeting over the years, but was also accepted non-Friends and blacks during periods when such practices were not known. 
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the meeting house

Merion Friends Meeting has the oldest continuously operated Friends meeting house in North America. It was built in 1695 by Welsh Quakers, though the Meeting started worshiping as a group in 1682.
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John Dickinson Bequest

Our campus was expanded when the family of John Dickinson, who helped draft the U.S. Constitution, donated the land where our activities building is.

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cherry trees

Our beautiful cherry trees in the burying ground vary in age from 80 years to 1 year old. 
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Landscape design for 650 Montgomery Ave

Preliminary Landscape Design Plans for 650 Montgomery Avenue (formerly Albrechts) new Albrechts Sites
Updated February 2020

footprint for 650 Montgomery 

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one page  PDF of concept plan for apartments/condos at 650 Montgomery Ave (formerly Albrechts) 

25 residences
retail on ground floor
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1999 planning award for Riteaid

one page  PDF of 1999 Merit Award, reviews process, site plan for the current RiteAid