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Friends Select School (FSS) is a college-preparatory, Quaker school for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade located at 1651 Benjamin Franklin Parkway at the intersection of Cherry and N. 17th Streets in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With Friends (Quaker) education dating to 1689, Friends Select, which was founded in 1833, has been located on this site since 1885. The current building, which includes an office building owned by the school, was built in 1967-69. An adjacent campus building is located across the street at 1700 Race Street (Friends Select @ 1700). The Race Street Meetinghouse, built in 1856, is used by students and faculty for Meeting for Worship each Wednesday. The school is under the care of both the Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia at 4th & Arch (held at the Arch Street Meeting House). The school is currently governed by a board of trustees divided equally between the two monthly meetings that oversee the school.〔A Friends Select School History by Carol H. Brown〕 ==History== Friends Select School, FSS, traces its history to the founding of the first Friends school managed directly by the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia in 1689.〔Minutes of the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia 5th Month (July) 26, 1689〕 Friends Select has existed in its current form since 1833 and has been at its present location since 1885.〔http://www.friends-select.org/〕 In 1832, a committee was appointed to set up two select schools. In January 1833, a Select School for Boys opened in the meetinghouse on Orange Street and a Select School for Girls opened in the meeting house on Twelfth Street. In 1885, a new school building on Sixteenth Street above Arch was nearing completion with a capacity for 60 scholars of each sex in the upper schools, and of twenty in each of the Primaries. In 1886, the boys' select school and the girls' select school moved to Sixteenth and Cherry (same location as Seventeenth and Parkway - in 1886 the Parkway had not been constructed). Built on the site of what was originally a Quaker burial ground (the entire block), remains were re-interred elsewhere to accommodate construction of the Parkway and site buildings.〔http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/friends/philaburials3.htm〕 An additional building was constructed in 1892 and a covered passageway joined the two buildings in 1894. A succession of additions extended the school along Cherry Street, almost the length of the block. Construction of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway was completed in 1916. A modern gymnasium was added in the late 1950s. In 1965, the school committee became serious about developing 17th and the Parkway for joint use.〔A Friends Select School History by Carol H. Brown〕 The decision was made to tear down the old Friends Select School and to build a new school building and office building on the same site. Once school closed in the sixth month of 1967, preparations were made to move to the Central YMCA located at 1421 Arch Street. For approximately a year and a half, the school relocated and classes were held at the Central Branch of the YMCA, about two blocks away, first on the third floor for the 1967-68 school year, then on the fourth floor for the fall of the 1968-69 school year. Construction had proceeded far enough for classes to move into the uncompleted new school building when Christmas break ended following New Year's Day, 1969. The Class of 1967 was the last class to graduate from the old school building, the Class of 1968 graduated from the YMCA location, and the Class of 1969 was the first class to graduate from the current school building. As built, it had (and still has) a multi-story office building on a 110 ft. wide strip along the south side of the property (FSS owns the entire city block on which both structures are located). This building was originally leased to the Pennsalt Chemicals Corporation (later PennWalt) on a 99-year ground lease to help finance construction of the current school building. ExcelleRX is its tenant as of January 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Friends Select School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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