Show CREDIT TO ITS BUILDERS frame meeting house in maryland with authentic record from 1683 Is still standing the old quaker meeting house at enston easton md Is probably the oldest frame building standing la in the united states just where it was built and as it was built without any change additions or subtractions and with an authentic record since 1083 an occasional replacing of the shingles on the root roof and of the weather boarding 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 time that william penn who visited the building was trading with the indians and laying out philadelphia the only preservative used on the wood has been old fashioned whitewash on the outside seven of ther the original iZal plank seats and the wood wijk inside hare pad had no paint whatever white oak white pine cypress and southern pine from the maryland forests were the woods used |