Friends' Boarding House Association (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Scope and Contents
Records of the Friends Boarding House Association, 1877-1913, including legal papers, minutes and other documents.
Dates
- Creation: 1877-1913
Creator
- Friends' Boarding House Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955).Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting of Friends (Contributor, Organization)
- Friends' Boarding House Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) (Contributor, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Parts of the collection are restricted (Folder 5).
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
The Friends Boarding House Association was incorporated in 1877 in Philadelphia with the purpose of establishing a boarding home for Quakers and others. A home was at first operated at 1623 Filbert Street, and in 1894, it was moved to 1708 Race Street. The Association was dissolved in 1913 with the establishment of a Boarding Home under the care of the Quarterly Meeting which made continuation of the “Friends Boarding House” unnecessary. It was therefore resolved that the Friends Boarding House Association (when legally dissolved) would transfer the property to the Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting Committee on Homes for Aged and Infirm Friends. All 17 of the Board members of the Friends Boarding House Association resigned in 1897 and were temporarily replaced with 13 others. It was decided that the remaining funds would be transferred to the Philadelphia Young Friends Association.
Extent
0.21 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Friends Boarding House Association was incorporated in 1877 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the purpose of establishing a boarding home for Quakers and others. The Association was dissolved in 1913 with the establishment of a Boarding Home under the care of the Quarterly Meeting. The collection contains records of the Friends Boarding House Association, 1877-1913, including legal papers, minutes and other documents.
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting
Processing Information
Deposited as part of Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting Records, Committee on Friends Boarding Home. Material removed from RG 2 and catalogued separately as an RG 4 collection.
Topical
- Church work with older people -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Church work with older people -- Society of Friends
- Church work with older people -- Society of Friends
- Old Age Homes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Rest homes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Society of Friends -- Charities
- Title
- An Inventory of the Friends' Boarding House Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records, 1877-1913
- Author
- SKM
- Date
- ca. 1985
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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