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Metro Louisville Clubs & Organizations Louisville Friends Meeting (Quaker) Newsletter 8-31-2005 Who We Are, I Around 1937, a few Friends and some folks raised in other religious denominations began meeing on Sunday afternoons for worship in the traditional Quaker manner at the old Neighborhood House on First Street. These were informal worship meetings inasmuch as the group did not have an official membership in the Society of Friends. By 1954, Lee and Joan Thomas had moved to Louisville with their family and encouraged the group to start a childrens' program, adult study groups, and to seek official membership. Preparations began soon after under the wing of the East Cincinnati Friends Meeting and the Louisville Friends Meeting became an official member of the Friends General Conference in 1962. An old white brick house located at 3050 Bon Air Avenue was purchased for the Meeting in 1964. It had formerly been an outbuilding of the Roederer Farm. Built sometime before the Civil War, it was constructed of bricks from the Farmington Plantation kiln with American chestnut joits and hand-wrought square-headed nails. The Meeting repaired and expanded the house under the supervision of Louisville architect Mansir Tydings. Neighborhood Link Terms of Use © 1997,1998,1999 E.Central, Inc.