Meetinghouse at George School

George School's meetinghouse was moved brick by brick from the corner of Twelfth and Chestnut Streets and reassembled in its current home on campus in 1974. The most challenging part of the effort was moving the eight original ceiling trusses in the wee hours of the morning, taking up all of the lanes of Route 413.

Now a longtime fixture at the corner of Farm Drive and Meetinghouse Lane, the meetinghouse is the spiritual center of campus.

As community members enter for a service, settling into the simple pews, it becomes clear that meeting is a universal time for reflection and consideration of the events of one’s week. Regardless of faith, meeting is a time for all in which a certain slowing—down takes place, a certain healing or tendering seems to go on–a purposeful centering of the mind.