what i didn't mention, the meeting house was built by a r.aker named owen biddle, j the comes from a family really active in quaker circles. in 1804, he did was to go to architecture school. i was not a thing, there were not architects. he referred to himself as a builder. what we have here are some of his tools that he left inside the building. they have his initials on them. both found in the lentil above the porticos we have outside. this image shows you to it was the top rectangular box. they were doing some restoration work in the 1960's. they sort of fell out onto the restoration workers. we have heard since that early builders would leave tools as sort of their calling card saying i was here, this is my , work. we have them on display. we chose not to put them back up into the woodwork. also some of the original nails and hinges. we also have the plans of the building here. this is a reproduction of cour course. these look a lot different than the blueprints you see nowadays. you can see how he laid it out, and all ofnt spaces, the graphs that he built into the design of this

another thing that owen biddle is famous for was writing a book, the young carpenter's assistant. not only did he care about doing the construction himself, but there was a lack of real educational tools for other people to learn how to do this beyond just, jud apprenticeship. he wrote one of the first guide and reference books to teach people how to do construction work. this right here is an example taken directly from his book. the pillar looks exactly like the pillars we have here. often when people enter this property, there is a brick wall surrounding it. once they come in through that brick wall, they are surprised at how large this building really is. it is hard to capture with general photography because it is so long, it barely fits even into the frame. if you notice from the facade, it is really plain out here as well. fancy, it does not have as many stories as a lot of the other churches in philadelphia at this time. you are also noticing that there is no steeple, something you probably see on other churches in the area and beyond. the worship community that meets was