<sod>The Philadelphia '''Great Meeting House''' was built at the southwest corner of 2nd and Market Streets in 1755.<ref>Philadelphia Meeting Houses, [http://ds.haverford.edu/omeka/meetinghouses/items/show/391 "High Street Meeting,"] from Haverford College.</ref> It was designed by carpenter Abraham Carlisle, and built by Carlisle and his apprentice, Isaac Coates. It was a square, 2-and-a-half story building faced with brick laid in [[Brickwork#Flemish bond|Flemish bond]]. Its six [[Liriodendron tulipifera|poplar]] roof trusses were 58 ft long and 20 ft tall, held together with wooden pegs rather than nails. The land on which it stood was sold in 1809, with the money raised to go toward building a new meeting house elsewhere.<eod>
<sod>The Philadelphia '''Great Meeting House''' was built at the southwest corner of 2nd and Market Streets in 1755.<ref>Philadelphia Meeting Houses, [http://ds.haverford.edu/omeka/meetinghouses/items/show/391 "High Street Meeting,"] from Haverford College.</ref> It was designed by carpenter Abraham Carlisle, and built by Carlisle and his apprentice, Isaac Coates. It was a square, 2-and-a-half story building faced with brick laid in [[Brickwork#Flemish bond|Flemish bond]]. Its six [[Liriodendron tulipifera|poplar]] roof [[Truss#King post truss|trusse]]s were 58 ft long and 20 ft tall, held together with wooden pegs rather than nails. The land on which it stood was sold in 1809, with the money raised to go toward building a new meeting house elsewhere.<eod>