CATHOLIC WORKER MARY HOUSE


1976 - Present

Operates as a soup kitchen and hostel. Part of a broader nationwide social movement— the Catholic Worker Houses are communities committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and forsaken. This particular building was a home to the founder — the radical pacifist—Dorothy Day until her death in 1980.
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This project is an expansion of the themes from the exhibit Activist Estates: A Radical History of Property in Loisaida (2019) authored and designed by the urban historian and architect Nandini Bagchee in partnership with curator Libertad Guerra.

AELES is an evolving resource that can grow to include supplemental layers of the case studies selected and the ongoing survival and futuring intents of these legacies.