Hill Friends plan new meetinghouse
by Barbara Sherf

Having outgrown its 79-year-old meetinghouse on Mermaid Lane, the Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting is planning to build a new facility as a place “for people of all faiths to gather for contemplation, reflection, or quietly delighting in the beauty of a lovely Skyspace by distinguished artist James Turrell,” according to longtime Meeting member Signe Wilkinson.

At a July 8 gathering under a simple white tent on the nearly two-acre parcel of vacant land where the Meeting intends to build its new facility, Wilkinson described the Meeting’s plans for a new, artistically significant space on Mermaid Lane close to its current meetinghouse, which will be sold. The Meeting hopes to break ground in late 2011. 
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Americans for the Arts vice chairman Michael Verruto and architect James Bradberry at the site of the future Chestnut Hill Friends Meetinghouse. (Photo by Barbara Sherf)
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