LCP: John G. Bullock Collection, number 71: "Mennonite Meeting Main St." (undated lantern slide shows Victorian house which replaced Keyser house on the left).

1982 National Register of Historic Places Inventory for Colonial Germantown Historic District:
"Mennonite Meeting House, 1770, rear section 1907, one and one- half stories, stone with wood trim, Colonial style. The congregation was established in 1688 as the first Mennonite church in America (Webster, pp. 272-273). --- Significant."

The first Mennonite settlers worshipped in each other's homes until this property was acquired and a log church was built on the lower corner of the property in 1708. The first minister was William Rittenhouse; Christopher Dock conducted a school here before 1740. British General Agnew was shot here by revolutionary synmpathizers during the Battle of Germantown.

Additional Sources:

• GHS: Box 11, envelope 5: "Keysers Yard and Menonist Church" (photograph of original wash and ink drawing in John Richards' sketchbook, p. 23).

• GHS: Glass negatives by Sanborn include:
  • #49 front view, dated 8-5-04
  • #50 view across Germantown Avenue, showing no. 6133 as well, dated 1-1-99
  • #51 doorway, dated 8-5-04.

• GHS: Handsome Homes of Germantown, Chestnut Hill, Mt. Airy & Pelham (Germantown: Independent-Gazette, 1899), p. 17: "Mennonite Church Main Street, above Herman" (sketch).

• GHS: (L1-11) Keyser, N.H. Germantown Scrapbook, pp. 16- 17 (newsclippings on the Mennonite Church and Keyser homestead) and pp. 63-72 (newsclippings on early Keyser settlers and their descendants).

• GHS: Keyser, Naaman. Manuscript Notes for v. 2 (north of Chelten), History of Old Germantown, pp. 54-56 (unpublished typewritten notes).

• GHS: Photo Box 5, env. 8: 4 views of Mennonite Church (one by John Bullock, one by Detroit Publishing Company, and two by Delos H. Smith).

• GHS: Photo Box 6, env. 16: 35 images of the Mennonite church including one view from the front, 25 views from southeast corner (1903-1951), 7 calendar reporductions (1902-1929), 2 views of the communion table.

• GHS: Photo Scrapbook 1 includes:
  • p. 1: "Mennonite Church. Copy of photo made 1859 for John Fanning Watson."
  • p. 47: "Mennonite Church" and "Communion table, Mennonite Church. First protest against slavery is supposed to have been written on it." (photographs by Fred. Henry Powers, 1903-24).
  • p. 97: "Germantown Mennonite Church" (photograph taken in 1930 by a city photographer at the direction of Mayor Mackey, view from the southeast shows rear of brick houses behind the church and part of 6133 Germantown Avenue).

• GHS: Photo Scrapbook 2 (1), pages 113-116 (images).

• GHS: Photo Scrapbook 6 "Germantowne 100 Years Ago" (1955), compiled and presented by Blanche Day: no. 52 (photograph).

• GHS: Photo Scrapbook 8: Historic American Buildings Survey of Germantown Mennonite Church, comp. by G.C. Johnson (7 pages of plans and measured drawings).

• HSP: Campbell Collection, vol. 33, pp. 205-209: Mennonite Church (various woodcuts, printed and photographic images of the Mennonite Church over time. Neighboring buildings include first the Keyser House and then a Victorian house at 6133 Germantown Avenue as well as different buildings behind the Meeting House. Includes artist John Richards and photographer L. Sowden).

• HSP: Mutual/Green Tree insurance policy 14029.

• HSP: Perkins Collection, vol. 61D, p. 72: Mennonite Meeting House (manuscript text and two woodcuts).

• HSP: Photo Collection Box 43 folder 3, "Philadelphia Germantown Mennonite Meeting House" (this postcard can be viewed as a small image or as a larger image; also shows the Victorian house that replaced Keyser house along Germantown Avenue and some buildings to the rear).

• HSP: Richards, John. Old Landmarks in Germantown and Vicinity, 31a: "Keyser's Yard and Mennonite Church 1770."

• HSP: Shoemaker Collection, folio 21: Mennonite Church and Keyser's House (four images and two pages of manuscript text).

• PHC: Mennonite Meeting House, Philadelphia Register of Historic Places (text).

• Quaint Old Germantown: Sixty Views of Ancient Landmarks Drawn on Zinc by John Richard 1863-1888 and Collated by Julius Friedrich Sachse. Philadelphia, 1913, plate XVI (zinc lithograph of Keyser House and Mennonite Church; available at both GHS and HSP).