BIOGHIST REQUIRED 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 guide to the Christodora House Records, 1897-1991, (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library.)