The document discusses the history of the Friends' Central School (FCS) buildings in Philadelphia. It describes how FCS moved from its first building at 5th & Cherry to a second building at 15th and Race before announcing a new campus in 1925 in Overbrook, where the Thomas Wood Building, originally the Wistar Morris Estate designed by architect Mantel Fielding in 1893-96, would be transferred to FCS for $1.00.

1. The Thomas Wood Building

2. FCS first
building
5th & Cherry

3. FCS second building, 15th and Race

4. The Morris Estate & the Wood Building

5. 1925 FCS new campus
announcement brochure

6. quote
“The smoke and dust of the city will be replaced by
fresh air and sunshine; the noise and confusion of
crowded streets will give way to the peace and quiet
characteristic of a country home.”
-- 1925 announcement brochure
“At Overbrook the school is more
centrally located than in the city”
-- 1925 announcement brochure

7. 1925
transfer of
property to
FCS for
$1.00

8. The Wood Building, 1893-96
originally: Wistar Morris Estate
Architect: Mantel Fielding

9. Wistar Morris Estate
“As Remodeled by his Heirs in 1893”

10. Mantel Fielding, architect
1865 – 1941