Merion Cricket Club is a private social club which is located in Haverford, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1865.
The club as seen in 1986
The "Main House," of brick and stone, replaced a wooden clubhouse that was destroyed by fire in September 1896
The fourth clubhouse (1892), backing onto Montgomery Avenue, was destroyed by fire in January 1896
Frank Heyling Furness was an American architect of the Victorian era. He designed more than 600 buildings, most in the Philadelphia area, and is remembered for his diverse, muscular, often inordinatel
Merion Cricket Club
…in Haverford, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1865. The current clubhouse is its sixth, the last four having been designed by Philadelphia architect Frank Furness and his partner, Allen Evans, who was also a founder of the club. The club was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987 for its leading role in…
University of Pennsylvania Library, Philadelphia (1891), now the Fisher Fine Arts Library
Main Reading Room, looking north
Germantown Unitarian Church (1866–67, demolished ca. 1928)