HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT


1897 - Present  

Distinguished by its visiting nurse program in 1897, the Henry Street Settlement was founded by the nurse/reformer Lillian Wald with financial support from the philanthropist Jacob Schiff. This center operating out of three townhouses on Henry street was an early advocate for public housing, women’s health and childcare. Like the other settlements, it has weathered many changes and continues in multiple locations to provide essential social services to young and old.
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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.