Casa de Castelar

Casa de Castelar
The College Settlement
Named afterEmilio Castelar
EstablishedFebruary 1894
Dissolved1910
Purposesocial reform
Location
Region served
Sonoratown, Los Angeles
Parent organization
Los Angeles Settlement Association, a subsidiary of the College Settlements Association

Casa de Castelar (later, The College Settlement)[1] was an American settlement in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in February 1894, during the settlement movement era, by a local branch of the College Settlements Association called the Los Angeles Settlement Association (LASA).[2][a] Casa de Castelar was the first settlement house in the city,[3][4] and the first settlement house west of the Mississippi River.[2]

  1. ^ a b Woods, Robert Archey; Kennedy, Albert Joseph (1911). Handbook of Settlements (Public domain ed.). Charities Publication Committee. pp. 11–12. Retrieved 1 May 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Estrada-2009 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Lewthwaite-2009 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Treviño, Roberto R.; Francaviglia, Richard V. (2007). Catholicism in the American West: A Rosary of Hidden Voices. Texas A&M University Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-58544-621-6. Retrieved 22 April 2022.


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