Papers, 1913-1993 (inclusive).

ArchivalResource

Papers, 1913-1993 (inclusive).

Collection includes correspondence, photographs, pocket calendars, condolence letters following Greener's death, etc.

.5 linear ft.

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North Bennet Street Industrial School (Boston, Mass.)

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The North Bennet Street Industrial School is located in Boston's North End, long an immigrant neighborhood and since the turn of the century predominantly Italian. In 1879, when No. 39 North Bennet Street housed the Seamen's Friend Society, Mrs. L. E. Caswell rented space there for a sewing room for poor women; a laundry room was added soon after and the establishment called the North Bennet Street Industrial Home. In June 1880 the Home leased the entire building. It gradually adde...

Greener, George C.

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George Courtright Greener (1884-1962) was the director of the North Bennet Street Industrial School, a trade school and settlement house in Boston's North End. A graduate of Ohio State University (1907), Greener worked as a ceramic engineer for the Salem Brick Company before joining the staff of NBSIS, where he initially taught clay modeling, in 1909. He soon became director and was instrumental in adopting school programs to meet changing needs: instituting paid training programs during the Gre...