YARDLEY FRIENDS' MEETINGHOUSE (#136)
Photographed and printed by the Arnold Bros.
"This 1869 meeting house was sold to the Yardley Building & Loan Assoc. to be used for their office and has been remodeled to suit the bank's needs... In 1955, an active and growing congregation received permission from Makefield M. M. to become a Monthly Meeting in their own right. At this time they were also busy constructing a new building near Lake Afton [designed by architect Mather Lippincott]..."
[Postcards of Bucks County, Pa., by Davis, Steele, and Cutshall, 1980, p.66, (80-pgs), listed at Alibris]
"Old Friends Meeting Houses [by the Arnold Bros.]... #7 Wrightstown, #28 Warminster, #36 Buckingham, #70 Dolington, #81 Newtown, #89 Middletown, #97 Solebury, #136 Yardley, #148 Doylestown, #169 Fallsington, #189 Richland, #202 Horsham, #205 Abington, #301 Byberry." [Ibid, p.13, by Bertha S. Davis, etal.]
Although Craven produced as many as 175 views in the Yardley area, there is to my knowledge no Craven postcard showing the Yardley Meeting as a single building with caption. It appears that the Arnolds reciprocated, since the view of Yardley Meeting is their only one in Yardley Borough. Craven did however, allow it to be included as one of the buildings in a street scene titled: "S. Main Street looking north toward College Ave."
Mather Lippincott died September 25, 2010 at the age of 88. His obituary, including his service in Europe during WWII as ambulance driver, etc. was printed in the Saturday, Sept 25, 2010 Delaware County Daily Times. Our fathers were close friends, and it was Mather who phoned Walter Lamb and set-up the interview for my first job as Timekeeper with Robert E. Lamb Construction Co.