College Settlement House
Where old Europe meets new America
A Glimpse of the Italian District
Italian Women's Club, Settlement Music School
Report of the Operations of the Southwark Soup Society
A Dramatic Club of the Philadelphia Settlement in "The Merchant of Venice"
A Health pageant (St. Martha's House)
A Touch of the neighborhood (St. Martha's House)
Almost any day at the Christian Street door
Babies' Rest Yard, College Settlement
Babies' Rest Yard, College Settlement
Children at the Settlement Music School
Children in alley, from "Incidents and Purposes" (College Settlement)
Children making clay figures at the Settlement Music School
Group of mothers, babies, and children, at Baby Saving Station, November 1913
Kindergarten in front of Neighborhood House
Little home-makers (St. Martha's House)
Plan Showing Alleys in the Vicinity of the Starr Garden
Roof garden at the Philadelphia settlement
The Housewife Bargaining with the Push Cart Man
The Kindergarten (St. Martha's House)
The New building of St. Martha's House
We play in a crack on Christian Street, 435 play yard
We slide in a corner of the crack
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Founded in 1889 as a settlement house for immigrants and children, College Settlement served the neighborhood's Italians, Russian Jews, and African Americans, although the Queen Street location is most closely associated with the Jewish community. College Settlement was founded and run by reform-minded university women, and was one of many settlement houses in the city. Usually staffed by single, white, middle-class women, settlement houses provided for the social, spiritual and physical well-being of immigrants and their children. In 1905 College Settlement started a trilingual kindergarten — Italian, Yiddish and English — for the children of immigrants. They also provided shower facilities for women and children who lacked access to indoor plumbing. In 1922, College Settlement established its summer farm camp in Horsham, Pennsylvania's, where city kids could spend a few weeks off the streets and in the woods. Today College Settlement Camp continues to serve children through day camps, environmental education, and other services.
External Links
References
- College Settlement of Philadelphia. "The College Settlement of Philadelphia and the Henry J. & Willemina B. Kuhn Day Camp." The College Settlement of Philadelphia. http://www.collegesettlement.org
- Hankinson, Oscar. "College Settlement: A Second Home." Pennsylvania Legacies, vol. 7, no. 2 (November2007): 26–27.
- Hankinson, Oscar. 2006. Interview by Joan L. Saverino. Tape recording. May 13.
- Hankinson, Oscar. 2008. Interview by Joan L. Saverino. Videotape recording. June 25. Interview by Joan L. Saverino. Tape recording. May 13.
Map
Map
Address
parking lot at 412 Queen St.
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