LAUREN: So I went to, um, a Quaker school actually... TIM: Okay.

LAUREN: From kindergarten to 12th grade.

So that's like part of me.

TIM: So the Arch Street Meeting House is the largest Quaker meeting house in the country, second largest in the world.

LAUREN: Wow.

TIM: There were tiny meeting houses throughout the city, dating back to 1695.

In 1804 the Quaker women gathered, and they said "Fellas, it's nice to know you men are created equal, what about us?"

They sell off the original meeting houses, they use the money and the bricks to build this beautiful building here.

The Quaker women are the driving force behind that.

A lot of advancements here, the most important in which is the first anti-slavery society in America.

And so we'll kind of end where we began, talking about equity.

LAURITA: Yes, yes.

TIM: Any movement you see towards equality, up until the early 1900s it's very likely that you're going to find a Quaker woman's name attached to, if not at the front of that movement.

LAUREN: Ah.

TIM: That's going to lead to Philadelphia in 1793, being named the bastion of equality.

You guys ready to go inside?

LAURITA: Yes.

TIM: All right.

LAUREN: Quaker women and the fight for the vote.

TIM: Over here, the Quaker women that we talked about... LAUREN: Yeah.

TIM: Who really paved the way towards equality.

Lucretia Mott starts the first anti-slavery society.

That is life-size, she was four foot ten.

LAURITA: I was wondering.

LAUREN: Wow.

LAURITA: Yes.

LAUREN: She's so cute.

TIM: Yes, as powerful as she was tiny.

Uh, you have Alice Paul, and of course probably most famously Susan B. Anthony.

And I'd love to show you guys to the official meeting room on the other side.

LAURITA: Okay.

LAUREN: Yeah.

TIM: All right so this is the main meeting room.

It's still active to this day since 1804.

All the benches come from the original Quaker meeting houses, so the furniture here dates back to 1695.

BOTH: Wow.

TIM: These cushions here, they've been stuffed with the same horse hair since the mid 1800s.

BOTH: Wow.

TIM: And that's the whole room.

Wood floors, wood benches, again really beautiful in their simplicity.

You guys wanna grab a seat.

LAUREN: This makes me feel so nostalgic, we used to have meeting for worship once a week when I was in school.

TIM: It's incredible, you can really feel the history in this room.

We are coming near the, the end about tour, we'll say our goodbyes outside, but Philadelphia has always been my happiness.

Thank you guys for letting me show you around.

And, we started talking about the Quakers, we can end the way that the meetings start.

LAUREN: The moment of silence.

TIM: Moment of silence.

♪ ♪ LAURITA: I'm glad we came here.

LAUREN: Me too, it really takes me back.

♪ ♪