Description: The Baptist Chapel in Berwyn was organized as a branch congregation of the Baptist Church in the Great Valley. The Chapel was first occupied by the Sunday School on Sunday, November 28, 1886, so it was barely a year old when Julius Sachse took this photograph in the summer of 1887. The structure is located half a block south of Conestoga Road on Cassatt Avenue, and was the second building built on the street. Sachse’s image looks southeast from Cassatt Avenue, and in the distance can be seen the Berwyn’s Pennsylvania Railroad freight station. As the contemporary viewer considers the wooded nature of the terrain today, it is remarkable how agricultural the area was at the time. In 2014 the structure is owned and occupied by the First Church of Christ Scientist. - Herb Fry and Roger Thorne
