Hartley House (New York City)

Hartley Farms

The Hartley Farms are affiliated with the Hartley House Settlement.

Leadership

• May Mathews was Executive Director of Hartley House for 50 years, beginning in the early 1900s following her graduation from Wellesley. Her dedication was commemorated by the naming of a neighborhood playground in her honor.
• 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

References

1. ''Biography Index, A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines'', Volume 17, September 1990 thru August 1992, [[H.W. Wilson Company]] (1992)
2. [https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/12/obituaries/grace-h-j-mead-95-foundation-president.html?scp=1&sq=%22Robert%20Hartley%22%20%22hartley%20house%22&st=cse ''Grace H. J. Mead, 95, Foundation President''], [[The New York Times]], Apr 12, 1991
3. [https://books.google.com/books?id=rUaihJEmW_0C&dq=%22Lincoln+House+Settlement%22&pg=PA37 Iris Carlton-LaNey, PhD, and N. Yolanda Burwell, PhD, ''African American Community Practice Models: Historical and Contemporary''], [[Haworth Press]] (1995)