 The art center features a studio school, innovation center, exhibition galleries and a sculpture park.The building itself features a vintage elevator from the 1930s.The Abington Art Center was started in 1965 as the Old York Road Art Guild, by a group of women who believed in the "benefit of cultural enrichment for individual and community life to be derived from creative artistic expression", the guild's educational elements were brought under a separate non-profit entity called Abington Art Center.