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| Formation | 1897 |
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| Type | Nonprofit |
| Purpose | social reform |
Professional title | Neighborhood House Association |
| Headquarters | Englewood, Chicago |
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| Origins | 1896, Young People's Society of the Universalist Church, of Englewood, Chicago |
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"To bring together for mutual benefit people of different classes and conditions is declared to be the distinctive purpose of the settlement."[1]
Neighborhood House (from 1903, Neighborhood House Association) was an American settlement house in Chicago, Illinois. It was opened in October 1896, by Samuel S. and Harriet M. Van Der Vaart, under the auspices of the Young People's Society of the Universalist Church, of Englewood, Chicago, (now known as Beverly Unitarian Church) and with the assistance of teachers of the Perkins, Bass, and D. S. Wentworth public schools.[1] It was officially established in the Fall of 1897 by Harriet Van Der Vaart as the outgrowth of the kindergarten opened the year before "to bring together for mutual benefit people of different classes and conditions."[2]
It became independent of the church in 1900. In 1903, it reorganized and incorporated as the Neighborhood House Association, with a board of 25 directors, most of whom lived in the neighborhood, who held title to the property, and largely managed internal affairs. Shares in the buildings of the association were sold in the neighborhood at US$5 each. It was maintained by dues and subscriptions.[2]
The settlement was originally located at 1550 69th Street (1896-99), before relocating to 1224 West 67th Street (67th and May Streets)[3] (1899-1906) and then 6710 May Street (1907-). The neighborhood was tenement district of small houses. The people were of Irish, Dutch, Bohemian and Italian extraction; and were mostly small wage-earners.[2] It had a kindergarten, library, social clubs, industrial school, drawing, choral, manual training and basket weaving classes.[1]
- ^ a b c Bibliography of College, Social, University and Church Settlements (Public domain ed.). 1900. p. 18. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
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- ^ a b c Woods, Robert Archey; Kennedy, Albert Joseph (1911). Handbook of Settlements (Public domain ed.). Charities Publication Committee. p. 65. Retrieved 26 April 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "PARK FOR POOR PEOPLE". The Inter Ocean. Chicago. 10 January 1899. p. 6. Retrieved 26 April 2022 – via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
