Christodora House.

Dates:
Active 1897
Active 1991

Biographical notes:

Christodora was founded in 1897 as a settlement house on Manhattan's Lower East Side to provide health care, educational and job training programs and other social services to poor immigrant families. Christodora House also served as a home for art and drama clubs. Christodora's Poet's Guild included Robert Frost Vachel Lindsay and Edwin Arlington Robinson and it inspired Ira Gershwin.

From the description of Christodora House records 1897-1991. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 476796571

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