1955 Sequoia builds the caretaker's residence, shop and the storage shed which subsequently becomes the Art Center. 1961 Sequoia offers to buy the property. AFSC forms an ad-hoc committee consisting of Vern James, Welvin Stroud, and Herb Foster, who circulate a questionnaire among Friends to determine how the property might be developed and used by them. Friends begin to use Quaker Center for occasional picnics and meetings. A Master Plan for Quaker Center is prepared by the San Francisco architectural firm of Osborne and Stewart.
Friends receive the main dining room from Sequoia Seminar.
This complex was to become known as the Lodge and then renamed the Orchard Lodge. The BL Committee gives formal notice to Sequoia Seminar that they wish to terminate the 1966 agreement. Court proceedings are initiated on both sides. June 1970 Sequoia Seminar moves from the caretaker's house and shop. August 1970 Earle and Akie Reynolds become the first resident hosts at Quaker Center, arriving from Japan on the yacht Phoenix.