The Quaker Tradition
Stapeley was built in 1904 as the Boarding Home for the Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting. The original building, on its six-acre site, was a gift from Anna T. Jeanes.

Stapeley is founded on Quaker principles of honesty, integrity and the worth of every human being. It is built on ground considered sacred by the Lennape and Iriquois Tribes and was a stop on the Underground Railroad before The Civil War.

Opened in 1904, Stapeley was offered as a haven to Friends and those who shared the Quaker beliefs and traditions.

Today Stapeley is a community with a wide variety of beliefs and cultures dedicated to those same Quaker traditions.