GREENWICH HOUSE
26 Jones St.
New York
Incorporat ed 1902 for "the establishment and maintenance
of a Social Settlement or Social Settlements in the City of New
York, as centers for social, educational and civic imprevements,
to be carried on in conjunction and association with the people
residing in the neighborhoods where such Settlement or Set tlements
may be situated."
CHARACTER OF THE WORK
Visiting, neighborhood werk, clubs, classes, bank stations
library, social investigation, ce-operation with other agencies,
local imprevements.
"It has been the avowed purpose of the Seciety from the
start not to make of the home center a noisy clubhouse filled with
various hybrid educational and so cial activities that will gradually
drive out the simple heme life, without which a settlement is devoid
of that spirit that alene can render it permanently useful in the
neighborhccd as a stimulus toward generally improved conditions;
