Friends Meeting of Washington DC Records
Dates
- Creation: 1927 - 2021
Creator
- Friends Meeting of Washington (Washington, D.C.) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Records in English
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.
Conditions Governing Use
Information on reproduction policies available in the Library.
Biographical / Historical
Friends Meeting of Washington (often referred to internally as FMW) was established as an independent meeting on Florida Avenue in the District of Columbia in 1930. It provided a convenient place of worship for then President Herbert Hoover and his wife, Lou Henry Hoover; Mrs. Hoover was greatly involved with the creation of the meeting and the construction of the meeting house. In 1944, Friends Meeting of Washington affiliated with both the Orthodox and Hicksite Baltimore Yearly Meetings. The older Washington Monthly Meeting, referred to as I-Street and Orthodox in origin, merged with College Park Friends in 1956 to form Adelphi Meeting.
Extent
47.5 linear ft.
0.3 GB
Arrangement
Divided into series: Minutes; Vital Records; Ministry & Worship and Overseers; Financial and Property Records; Committee Records; Miscellaneous.
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit, Friends Meeting Washington office and archives. A subset of the digital records were deposited by Wayne Finegar, General Secretary of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, in 2020.
Subject
- Friends Meeting of Washington (Washington, D.C.) (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Friends Meeting of Washington DC Records
- Date
- 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Find It at the Library
Most of the materials in this catalog are not digitized and can only be accessed in person. Please see our website for more information about visiting or requesting repoductions from Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College Library
