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The first Rivington Street Settlement house was established September 1, 1889, by the CSA with Jean Gurney Fine Spahr as head worker, with the purpose of "establishing a home in a neighborhood of working people in which educated women might live, in order to furnish a common meeting ground for all classes for their mutual benefit and education".
Christodora House is a historic building located at 143 Avenue B in the East Village/Alphabet City neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City.It was designed by architect Henry C. Pelton (architect of Riverside Church) in the American Perpendicular Style and constructed in 1928 as a settlement house for low-income and immigrant residents, providing food, shelter, and educational and health ...
The Henry Street Settlement is a not-for-profit social service agency in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City that provides social services, arts programs and health care services to New Yorkers of all ages. It was founded under the name Nurses' Settlement in 1893 by progressive reformer and nurse Lillian Wald.
Friendly Inn Settlement House: Cleveland, Ohio: United States [18] Gladden Community House: Columbus, Ohio: United States [19] Godman Guild Association: Columbus, Ohio: United States [20] Grace Hill Settlement House: St. Louis, Missouri: United States [21] Grand Street Settlement: New York, New York: United States Greenwich House, Inc. New York ...
University Settlement House, Manhattan. The movement spread to the United States in the late 1880s, with the opening of the Neighborhood Guild in New York City's Lower East Side in 1886, and the most famous settlement house in the United States, Hull-House (1889), was founded soon after by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr in Chicago.
The University Settlement Society of New York is an American organization which provides educational and social services to immigrants and low-income families, [2] located at 184 Eldridge Street (corner of Eldridge and Rivington Streets) on the Lower East Side of the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York.
United Neighborhood Houses of New York is the federation of 38 settlement houses in New York City. [23] These and other settlement houses inspired the establishment of settlement schools to serve isolated rural communities in Appalachia, such as the Hindman Settlement School in 1902 and the Pine Mountain Settlement School in 1913. [citation needed]
Pages in category "Settlement houses in New York City" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .