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Hartley House (New York City)

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Hartley House, formerly known as Hartley House Settlement, is a New York not for profit corporation, operating since 1897 as a charity serving the Hell's Kitchen community of Manhattan, New York. From the day of its founding, the Hartley House has been operating from 413 West 46th Street in Manhattan.

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Hartley Farms

The Hartley Farms are affiliated with the Hartley House Settlement.

Leadership

  • May Matthews, head of Hartley House in the 1920s
  • Grace Hartley Jenkins Mead (1896–1991) was president of Hartley House from 1940 to 1965; she was the great granddaughter of Robert Milham Hartley

    • Other settlement houses in New York City

  • 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
  • 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

    • References

    Hartley House (New York City) Wikipedia
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