Show CREDIT TO ITS BUILDERS frame meeting house in maryland with authentic record from 1683 Is still standing the old quaker meeting house at aas ton md Is probably the oldest frame building standing Is IB the just where it was built and as it was waa built without any chap ife adal floes or subtractions an BU au 4 thenus record since 1685 1696 an occasional replacing of the shingles on the root roof and of the weather boarding aro are all the repairs it has had its frame inside and woodwork and some of the weatherboarding weather boarding are the same as when built about the same tibe alae that william penn who visited e build a in ing g was trading ath the indians ans int and laying out philadelphia the only preservative used on tbt th wood has been old ola fashioned whitewash on the outside seven of ther original plank seats and the woodwork inside have had no paint whatever ever r white imite oak white pine cypress and southern pine from the maryland forests were the woods used |