Lantern slide showing a view of Old Friend's Meeting House in Manasquan, N.J., a small one-story building with shuttered windows and wooden shingles. Scrubby foliage grows in front of the meeting house and trees grow behind. A wooden fence extends from the left side of the meeting house in front of a garden. The Manasquan Friends Meeting House was built circa 1730. Originally a two-story structure, it was remodeled into a one-story building in 1812 after storm damage in 1808. The original Meeting House was sold in 1885 and a new building built a year later., Contains MCM's stamp., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date
ca. 1890
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2150]
