B-336_464+GRAND+STREET

BLOCK 336

Landmarks

Henry Street Settlement

NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK, PUBLISHED 1974: [|nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natregsearchresult.do?fullresult=true&recordid=3]

HISTORY OF SOCIAL WELFARE: HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: []

LILIAN D. WALD PAPERS AT NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: []



HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT AND NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYHOUSE:
 * BLOCK || 336 ||
 * LOT || 28 ||
 * NB || NB 52-13, 196-13 ||
 * USE || HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT AND NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYHOUSE ||
 * ORIGINAL USE || PLAYHOUSE ||
 * CURRENT USE || HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT AND NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYHOUSE ||
 * NUMBER OF STORIES || 3 ||
 * FAÇADE MATERIALS || BRICK, WOOD ||
 * FOUNDATION MATERIAL || CONCRETE ||
 * STYLE || FEDERAL ||
 * FIREPROOF || YES ||
 * NUMBER OF UNITS || 1 ||
 * ELEVATOR || NO ||
 * NUMBER OF ELEVATORS || x ||
 * DATE OF INSTALLATION || x ||
 * PARKING GARAGE || NO ||
 * DESCRIPTION || x ||
 * DATE OF INSTALLATION || x ||
 * NUMBER OF PARKING SPACES || x ||
 * LOT SIZE || 50' x 100' ||
 * BUILDING SIZE || ? ||
 * BUILDING HEIGHT || ? ||
 * RELATIONSHIP TO LOT LINE || UP TO ||
 * ARCHITECT NAME + ADDRESS ||  ||
 * BUILDER NAME + ADDRESS ||  ||
 * OWNER/DEVELOPER NAME + ADDRESS HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ||



LOUIS ABRONS ARTS FOR LIVING CENTER: BUILT 1975 (SOURCE: AIA GUIDE p. 93) || AIA GUIDE, p. 93: "An urban exedra, these buildings make a civic space in this wasteland of amorphous streets. A high moment of architecture that brings a suggestion of urbane Manhattan (cf. Greenwich Village, Grammercy Park) to this Rego Park-styled area."
 * BLOCK || 336 ||
 * LOT || 28 ||
 * NB || NB36-66, NB 354-84, NB 732-98, NB 1876-99
 * USE || ABRONS ART CENTER, HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ||
 * ORIGINAL USE || ABRONS ART CENTER, HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ||
 * CURRENT USE || ABRONS ART CENTER, HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ||
 * NUMBER OF STORIES || 4 ||
 * FAÇADE MATERIALS || BRICK, CONCRETE ||
 * FOUNDATION MATERIAL || CONCRETE ||
 * STYLE ||  ||
 * FIREPROOF || YES ||
 * NUMBER OF UNITS || ? ||
 * ELEVATOR || ? ||
 * NUMBER OF ELEVATORS || ? ||
 * DATE OF INSTALLATION || ? ||
 * PARKING GARAGE || NO ||
 * DESCRIPTION || x ||
 * DATE OF INSTALLATION || x ||
 * NUMBER OF PARKING SPACES || x ||
 * LOT SIZE || 50' x 100' ||
 * BUILDING SIZE || ? ||
 * BUILDING HEIGHT || ? ||
 * RELATIONSHIP TO LOT LINE || UP TO ||
 * ARCHITECT NAME + ADDRESS || PRENTICE & CHAN OHLAUSEN ||
 * BUILDER NAME + ADDRESS || ? ||
 * OWNER/DEVELOPER NAME + ADDRESS HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ||

The Henry Street Settlement  records document the settlement's work as well as its concerns for social issues in New York City and nationally. While material in the collection dates from 1892 to 2003, the vast bulk of the records documents the Helen Hall years, 1933 to 1967.

The records include: agendas, minutes, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, financial records and budgets, brochures and newsletters, architectural drawings, maps, photographs, pamphlets, scores, scripts, and scrapbooks. These records describe Henry Street Settlement  's services and programs, including those related to: the arts, child care, camping and youth activities, health care, mental health, senior citizen activities, consumer education, juvenile delinquency, employment programs, adult education, and homelessness. The records also detail the settlement's internal administration. In addition, extensive correspondence files show the settlement's interactions with other persons and organizations, including various city, state, and federal government officials and agencies.

Series 1, Administration, documents the internal workings of the settlement as well as its history, organization, mission, policies, and clientele. The series also includes records from thesettlement's Community Studies Department. The correspondence, questionnaires, reports and related records document a range of social issues and reflect contemporary social work methodology and ideology. Series 2, Services and Programs, consists of the records of the settlement's many permanent programs, such as the arts department and camps; special short-term projects, such as the Pre-Delinquent Gang Project; regular programs that are no longer in operation; and proposals for programs that were never funded.

The Related Organizations series (Series 3) includes records of the organizations which were closely tied with Henry Street administratively or grew out of Henry Street programs. The Organizations, Subjects, and Correspondence series (Series 4) is an alphabetical arrangement of files documenting the people, organizations, and subject areas with which Henry Street was concerned. Series 5 contains scrapbooks that document primarily the Henry Street Music School and the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service. The series also contains some information regarding the settlement in general. Series 6, Memorabilia and Ephemera, consists of individual items or groups of items donated to the Henry Street Settlement  by supporters, former staff, and alumni. The materials document people, events, and programs at the settlement. Series 7 contains grant proposals, applications and reports from the Henry Street Settlement Development Office. These are a rich source of information on a wide range of settlement programs, in particular arts, youth activities, and homeless services. The Henry Street Oral History project records (Series 8) consist of tapes, transcripts or partial summaries, interviewers' reports and conclusions, and release forms. The interviews of current and former settlement staff, program participants, neighborhood residents, and settlement benefactors document people and programs at Henry Street as well as life on New York City's Lower East Side.

Principal correspondents include Lillian D. Wald, Helen Hall, and Bertram M. Beck, all of whom served as the settlement's headworker or executive director. Other settlement employees who are documented in the records include Ralph and Ruth Tefferteller, Susan Jenkins Brown, Karl Hesley, Alwin Nikolais, Atkins Preston, and Leona Gold. The Henry Street Board of Directors included a variety of influential persons including: Herbert H. Lehman, Nicholas Kelley, Felix M. Warburg, James Felt, Mary Dublin Keyserling, A. Fairfield (Allston Fairfield) Dana, and Winslow Carlton. The researcher can also find information regarding other settlement figures, such as Helen M. Harris, Lillian W. (Lillian Wester) Robbins, and Mildred Gutwillig. Paul Underwood Kellogg, Robert Wagner, and Leonard Farbstein also appear.