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94:, the other in New Haven. In New Haven, the Lowell House Association took up the matter in the winter of 1901-02, and by enlisting the volunteer work of students and others and securing the cooperation of the city authorities, made a thorough and careful investigation of nine city blocks in one of the worst quarters of the city. This led to the formation of a volunteer committee which contained representatives of the business interests of New Haven as well as city officials, sanitary experts, and charitable workers, and this committee drafted a bill which was presented by Senator Eli Whitney of New Haven. 46: 42:, and the personal incentive of Dr. Julia E. Teele, who established herself in a tenement occupied by five other families, "to study the needs, live a life of neighborliness, and to interest others in our neighbors." In February, 1901, an advisory council was organized which assumed the financial burden of the work, and the house at 153 Franklin Street was taken. In March, 1903, an association was formed and a constitution adopted. The settlement was maintained by voluntary subscriptions. 416: 379: 344: 300: 268: 231: 104:
Piano lessons and practice were available, as well as classes in sewing, drawing, cooking, carving, kitchen gardening, painting, iron work, dressmaking, and basketry. There were various clubs for children and women, boys and young men; English classes for foreigners. Summer work included a playground
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Lowell House was involved in several activities, such as representation in the various city movements for better conditions. It was involved in an investigation of housing, as a result of which a committee was formed which drafted the Connecticut Tenement House Act, which passed in 1905. The movement
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I am president of the New Haven Women's Church Union of 60 churches; president of the New Haven Lowell House Mothers' Club for 25 years; chairman of religious training for Connecticut Congress of Mothers, representing 8,000. I am also a delegate appointed at a meeting of 500 women of New Haven,
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to be used for the erection of a new building for the Lowell House. The gift was the largest of its kind on record and would allow the settlement work to be conducted on a broader and more effective basis. Farnam was interested in the work of Lowell House, and was one of five
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The settlement was located at 202 Franklin Street (January 1900 to January 1901), 153 Franklin Street (1901 to May 15, 1907), and Dr. Teele's apartment, Hamilton Streel (1906-). From 1907, it was located at 198 Hamilton Street, with a dispensary at 206 Hamilton Street.
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The settlement was located in a factory district. While there were a considerable number of Irish families left, they were fast being pushed out and the district was becoming characteristically Italian. There were some Jews, Russians and Germans.
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Lowell House maintained a noon lunch ciub for factory girls, a dispensary, a bank, and a branch of the public library. In the Lowell House library, all the readers were children, except for the few foreign language books read hy adults.
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Conn., members of 60 Protestant churches of 8 denominations, also Catholic and Hebrew, as well as more than 50 organizations of women, who respectfully request the Senate of the United States to pass no act which will weaken the
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As of 1911, there were four women residents and three men. There were also 40 women volunteers and ten men. Head Residents included: Dr. Julia E. Teele (January 1900 to Spring 1905), Ethel R. Evans (October 1905-).
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National Prohibition Law: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Bills To Amend the National Prohibition Act, Sixty-Ninth Congress, First Session
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organized the Mothers' Club of Lowell House, and served as president for more than two decades. In 1926, representing the club and its opposition to the amending of the
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which led to the presentation to the Connecticut legislature of a bill for the regulation of tenement houses had its origin in two independent organizations, one in
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Residents were also able to be of service in organizing the District Nurses Association, the Consumers' League, and the Associated Civic Societies.
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United States Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Bills To Amend the National Prohibition Act (1926).
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Established January, 1900, as an outgrowth of a flower mission operated by the youth of the Second Congregational Church,
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The Lowell House had a wide influence in the promotion of good citizenship among the working classes.
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open for eight weeks, piano lessons, a woman's club, dispensary, noon lunch, and some informal work.
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professors who, together with several women of New Haven, composed the Council of the organization.
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The Early History of Lowell House, First New Haven Social Settlement
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A Modern History of New Haven and Eastern New Haven County
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Charities: A Review of Local and General Philanthropy
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Kennedy, Albert Joseph; Woods, Robert Archey (1911).
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social settlement
New Haven, Connecticut
Fair Haven

Henry Walcott Farnam
Henry Walcott Farnam
Yale University
Hartford, Connecticut
Delia Lyman Porter
National Prohibition Act
Congress
Volstead Act
eighteenth amendment
Settlement and community houses in the United States
The Early History of Lowell House, First New Haven Social Settlement







Handbook of Settlements
public domain


Yale Alumni Weekly
public domain
"Housing Campaign in Connecticut"
public domain

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