Greenwich House history

The Tenant’s Manual, published in 1903, was the first of its kind to document tenement laws and tenants’ rights.

(4) Public Schools.—Made a careful study (1905-6) of the relation of the school to the home on the basis of which it developed its school visiting work.

Conducted (1909) an outdoor pre-tuberculosis summer school for children in co-operation with the board of education, in lieu of a much needed and hard worked for winter school.

The latter portion of this entry is copied from the Handbook of Settlements a national survey of settlements published in 1911 by The Russell Sage Foundation of New York.

In 1913 the Music School moved to its own building at 46 Barrow Street, and then later acquired the adjoining brownstone to expand.

By 1917, when Greenwich House relocated to 27 Barrow Street, it offered music, theater and fine arts programs on site and also established art classes in many local public schools.

Earlier, Greenwich House opened the first official day-care center for children in 1920 to help a new community of working mothers.

In 1923, this plaque was placed at 59 Grove Street, the address where Paine died.

The arts programming expanded to the Arts and Crafts building at 16 Jones Street, opened in 1928.

In addition to its cultural agenda and housing reform activities, it provided vital institutional support for government programs, a function that was further solidified in the 1930’s when many programs of the Works Projects Administration (WPA) were housed at the Settlement.

Simkhovitch, M. K. (1938). Neighborhood: My Story of Greenwich House.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased two pieces from the Pottery in 1939.

Then, in 1942 it started the first after-school child care program in the city.

When Jane Hartsook was appointed director in 1945, she began a period of expansion for the Pottery, opening its doors to world-class artists like Peter Voulkos to teach and work in their studios.

During her reign through 1948, Simkhovitch co-wrote the National Housing Act with Senator Robert Wagner, which was the first piece of legislation regarding the government’s responsibility to aid low income families with housing.

These early years were memorialized in the 55th issue of Wonder Woman on July 23, 1952.

In 1963 it received a grant from the National Institute of Health to establish the first walk-in outpatient counseling center for drug treatment in New York.

When it opened in 1964 as a psychiatric clinic, it was the first in the state exclusively for narcotics addicts.

The Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program began in 1970, another first for the city.

The Senior Health and Consultation Center began in 1974, a unique program that provides mental health services and health services related to the particular needs of the elderly, and one of the only that offers these services in home visits.

Also in 1987, Greenwich House founded the Children's Safety Project, the only program in the city dedicated to treating young victims of abuse.

May 20, 2009. http://lastexitmag.com/article/thomas-paines-america.