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Notes for Horace Mather Jr. LIPPINCOTT
H. Mather Lippincott Jr., 88, of Haverford, an active Quaker and architect known for his design of spiritual and educational spaces, died Sept. 20 of injuries sustained during an automobile accident.
Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Lippincott graduated from the Chestnut Hill Academy and the Westtown School in 1939. He received a Bachelor of Arts in history from Haverford College in 1943 and served as class president for 67 years.
Mr. Lippincott served for two years as an ambulance driver in the American Field Service, detailed to the British Army in Italy during World War II. He returned to the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture, from which he graduated in 1949.
In 1949, Mr. Lippincott married Margaret “Peg” Louise Walker, the daughter of the headmaster of Westtown School where he attended high school. They raised their family sons in the house Mr. Lippincott designed in the Rose Valley section of Media.
A birthright member of the Religious Society of Friends, Mr. Lippincott had a lifetime involvement. He was active in the Philadelphia yearly meeting for more than 50 years.
Upon returning to Philadelphia from Italy in 1945, Mr. Lippincott continued to serve through the Friends General Conference Central Committee, American Friends Service Committee from 1950-53, the board of the AFS and Pendle Hill and as clerk of Media Meeting from 1971-81. Mr. Lippincott was also a trustee of the Thomas H. and May Williams Shoemaker Fund for 56 years.
Mr. Lippincott began his career as an architect in the office of Oscar Stonorov. He was a founding partner of Cope & Lippincott Architects in 1956, with his college roommate and fellow Quaker, architect Paul M. Cope Jr.
Mr. Lippincott served as an officer of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects from 1954-1969 and as its president in 1969. He was named as a national feIlow in 1972.
Known as one of the premiere Quaker architects of the last 50 years, Mr. Lippincott led projects to build or renovate Quaker Meeting Houses, places of worship and congregations from North Carolina to Maine. He designed many Quaker meetings including Media, Providence, Summit, N.J., New Garden, N.C., Damarcsottia, Maine, Moorestown, Germantown and Radnor.
He designed numerous Quaker schools, including the Westtown School, Solebury Friends, Sidwell Friends, Greene Street Friends, Atlantic City Friends, Moorestown Friends and Germantown Friends.
One of his signature achievements was the design of the Friends’ Center at 1515 Cherry St., Philadelphia in 1978. The building joined the historic meetinghouse built by his great-great-grandfather with a modern office and conference complex, and served as headquarters for local and national Quaker organizations. Cope and Lippincott won several historic preservation and design awards, as well as an international design commission for the Walter Burley Griffin memorial in Canberra, Australia.
Mr. Lippincott was a lecturer on architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts from 1952-1065. He remained active as an architect, recently finishing a renovation at the University of Pennsylvania chapter of Delta Psi Fraternity of which he was a member.
He achieved the title of master builder during his longtime membership in the Carpenter’s Company.
He served as president of the Savoy Opera Company in 1952. He was active in the Union League of Philadelphia Glee Club and the Men of Rose Valley Chorus. He appeared in the Rose Valley Folk Variety Show every year since 1965.
A third-generation member of the Union League of Philadelphia, Mr. Lippincott enjoyed tennis. He served as a founding trustee of the Abraham Lincoln Foundation. He was director of the Art and Library Committees, and arranged the commission of four presidential portraits that hang there.
He was dedicated to his profession, faith, family and community.
He was the son of the late Horace Mather Lippincott and Sarah Jenkins Lippincott.
Survivors: Wife of 61 years, Peg Lippincott of Haverford; sons, Hugh Walker Lippincott of Wellesley, Mass., Robert Mather Lippincott of Washington, D.C., James Bell Lippincott of Ashby, Mass., Evan Jenkins Lippincott of Potomac, Md.; nine grandchildren.
Service: 2 p.m. Oct. 23 at the Friends Meetinghouse, 1515 Cherry St., Philadelphia.
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