Hartley House (New York City)
 Hartley House in December 2023 | |
| Formation | use 1897 |
|---|---|
| Type | Not for profit corporation |
| Legal status | Charity |
| Headquarters | 413 West 46th Street, Manhattan |
| Location | |
Region | Hell's Kitchen |
Hartley House, formerly known as Hartley House Settlement, is a not for profit corporation, operating since 1897 as a charity serving the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Since its founding, the Hartley House has been operating from 413 West 46th Street in Manhattan.
Hartley Farms
[edit]The Hartley Farms are affiliated with the Hartley House Settlement.
Leadership
[edit]- May Mathews was Executive Director of Hartley House for 50 years, beginning in the early 1900s following her graduation from Wellesley. Her dedication was commemorated by the naming of a neighborhood playground in her honor.
- Grace Hartley Jenkins Mead (1896–1991) was president of Hartley House from 1940 to 1965; she was the great granddaughter of Robert Milham Hartley[1][2]
Other settlement houses in New York City
[edit]- Lincoln House Settlement – 202 W 63rd Street, Manhattan; founded by the leaders of the Henry Street Settlement to serve New York's African American community[3]
- Henry Street Settlement – Lower East Side, Manhattan; founded in 1893 by Lillian Wald
- Third Street Settlement – 235 E 11th Street, now called Third Street Music School Settlement; founded in 1894 by Emilie Wagner
- Lenox Hill Neighborhood House – 331 E 70th Street; founded in 1894 by the Alumnae Association of Hunter College
- University Settlement House – the oldest settlement house in the United States, founded in 1886 by Stanton Coit, Charles B. Stover, and Carl Schurz
- Union Settlement Association – founded in 1895 by alumni, faculty, and students of Union Theological Seminary at 202 E 69th Street in response to the desperate conditions of immigrants struggling to make a new life in America ... within five months, the agency moved to its present site at 237 E 104th Street
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Biography Index, A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines, Volume 17, September 1990 thru August 1992, H.W. Wilson Company (1992)
- ^ Grace H. J. Mead, 95, Foundation President, The New York Times, Apr 12, 1991
- ^ Iris Carlton-LaNey, PhD, and N. Yolanda Burwell, PhD, African American Community Practice Models: Historical and Contemporary, Haworth Press (1995)
External links
[edit]- Hartley Farms
- United Neighborhood Houses of New York
- Finding aid for the Hartley House records in the Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries.