Henry Street Settlement Also known as: Nurses' Settlement

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Meyer Bloomfield to Jane Addams, May 23, 1901

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, March 16, 1902

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, October 6, 1908

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, October 8, 1908

Jane Addams to Anna Marcet Haldeman, November 1911

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, December 21, 1911

Lillian D. Wald to Amos Pinchot, October 14, 1912

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, September 15, 1914

Lillian D. Wald to Emily Greene Balch, September 22, 1914

Paul Underwood Kellogg to George W. Nasmyth, September 24, 1914

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, December 24, 1914

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, January 29, 1915

Towards the Peace That Shall Last, March 6, 1915

Frederick Lynch to Jane Addams, July 14, 1915

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, July 15, 1915

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, July 23, 1915

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, July 29, 1915

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, October 13, 1915

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, November 12, 1915

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, November 15, 1915

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Lillian D. Wald, February 17, 1916

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, March 9, 1916

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Alice Thacher Post et al., May 26, 1917

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Katherine Davis Cumberson, May 28, 1917

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, June 4, 1917

Zona Gale to Jane Addams, June 16, 1917

Crystal Eastman to Jane Addams, June 28, 1917

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, August 23, 1917

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, January 1, 1918

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, January 30, 1919

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, December 25, 1919

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, November 15, 1920

Remarks on the Cinema, ca. 1922-1923

Remarks on the Cinema, ca. 1922-1923

We Called Him Brother, November 1, 1924

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, January 15, 1925

Marie Butts to Jane Addams, February 27, 1925

Madeleine Zabriskie Doty to Dorothy Detzer, March 16, 1926

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, June 3, 1926

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams and Mary Rozet Smith, March 17, 1927

Herrmann, Elsa Hammershough (1878?-1949)

Kittredge, Mabel Hyde (1867-1955)

Wald, Minnie Schwarz (1842-1923)

Waters, Yssabella Gertrude (1862-1938)

Henry Street Settlement to Jane Addams, January 19, 1927

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Founding Date

1893

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Before founding the Henry Street Settlement, Lillian Wald was a nurse in New York City. At just 22 in 1893, Wald could see a desperate need by the city's poor for lessons in hygiene and proper medical care. In 1895 she solicited the help of Jacob Schiff, who bought and refurbished 265 Henry Street for Wald to use as a settlement house.

Originally called the Nurses' Settlement, Wald intended the settlement to enrich the lives in the area with information about disease and prevention. One of the biggest issues she notices was the alarming frequency of children missing classes due to untreated ailments, often because parents or children did not understand how to care for them. This prompted Wald to push for the first public school nurse in 1902; the project proved so successful that by 1914, New York City had close to 400 school nurses in its system.

Henry Street Settlement is still in operation today, providing arts classes, job hunting services, summer camps for children, and much more.