Pittsburgh Meeting Room, PA

In 1879-1880+, S.A. Clarke resided in Pittsburgh, in fellowship with the exclusive brethren. By 1901, a TW-Lowe-eb assembly was started in the suburb of Homestead, with William C. Jones, George M. Lyle (1860-1942) and William C. Arbuckle (1870-1952), active thru 1927, and from 1909 within the branch of the TW's. E.J. Checkley commuted +1914-1917+ from Pittsburgh.

From +1908-1911+, it was meeting at Dixon Hall, cor. 8th Ave. & Ann St., Homestead, described as 7 mi. south of Pittsburgh, with a trolley car available for transport. It met on Lord's Day with Breaking of Bread at 10:45am, a children's meeting at 2:30pm, and an open meeting in the evening, at 7:30 in the winter, and 7:45 in the summer. On Tuesday evenings at 7:45pm, there was a prayer meeting, and Friday evenings at the same time for a reading meeting.

By 1933, it had moved into renting a room at the Squirrel Hill Community Center at 911 Hazelwood Ave., which they later purchased and continued in that location thru 1999. It met at the Hampton Inn for a few years thru 2011, and folded sometime after 2016. A photo of the meeting room on Hazelwood can be found here on Google Maps. Meeting times in 1933 had the children's meeting at 9:45am, and the rest of the meetings and times remained the same, with the Sunday evening meeting tending to be a Gospel meeting.

By 1944, the meeting times had changed to Lord's Day children's meeting at 9:30am, and 7:45 Gospel meeting that evening. Prayer meeting was at 8pm on Wednesday nights, and Reading meeting at 8pm on Friday nights still. In 1950, the prayer and reading meeting times were changed to 7:45pm each. By 1962, the children's meeting had been moved to 9:45am.

William H. Higginson commuted to the meeting +1933-1955+ from 229 College Ave., California, PA. Mrs. Joseph N. Cauchie started commuting +1933-1951+ from her home at 113 Liberty St., McDonald, PA, and her children Edward N. Cauchie +1944-1951+ and Ruth E. Cauchie Walker +1944-1955+. By 1951-1955+, they were hosting a bible reading every 2nd Lord's Day of the month at 3:30pm. The assembly folded prior to 2019.

Also See

• Who's Who at Pittsburgh Meeting Room, PA notable alumni

Sources

• EB/TW-Lowe/TW LoG's