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23-458: The first Rivington Street Settlement house was established September 1, 1889, by the CSA with Jean Gurney Fine Spahr as head worker, with the purpose of "establishing a home in a neighborhood of working people in which educated women might live, in order to furnish a common meeting ground for all classes for their mutual benefit and education". The CSA organized to support this and other settlements. It

46-422: A playground; back yard playground; ice-water fountain; flowers; picnics and excursions; summer home at Mount Ivy, New York, perhaps the most consistent piece of settlement summer vacation work in the country. Jean Gurney Fine Spahr Jean Gurney Spahr ( née Fine ; 1861 – September 25, 1935) was an American social reformer. A pioneer in the U.S. settlement movement , she was a co-founder and officer of

69-404: A range of classes in dance, music and ensemble. Opening in 1976, Third Street Preschool provides music-enriched learning with a focus on experiential play. They offer care for children from 1–5 years of age. Third Street Partners Program provides music and dance instruction to over 25 New York City public schools . Third Street Music School is the longest-running community music school in

92-500: Is the longest-running community music school in the United States. Founded in 1894, it is at 235 East 11th Street, New York City . Third Street has three main programs: a music & dance school, a music-infused Preschool, and a Partners program. It also works with New York City Department of Education on training Pre-K teachers in music education. Third Street Music School settlement offers classes for ages 3 and up, with

115-610: The Brearley School ( New York City , 1885-89). After teaching at Brearley School, Spahr went to London and visited Toynbee Hall where she became acquainted with the British-model of the settlement movement . Back in New York City in 1889, Spahr shared the idea with other college women and proposed the establishment of a settlement home in the city's Lower East Side at 95 Rivington Street . Spahr became

138-763: The College Settlements Association (CSA), and the head of the Rivington Street Settlement in New York City . Jean Gurney Fine was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania , 1861. Her parents were Lambert Suydam and Mary Ely (Burchard) Fine. Her siblings included the educators, Henry Burchard Fine , John B. Fine, and May Margaret Fine. She graduated from Smith College with a B.A. degree in 1883. Spahr taught at Clinton College ( Kentucky , 1883-85); and at

161-520: The Outlook . They had five daughters: Margaret (b. 1893), Elizabeth Fine (b. 1894), Mary Burchard (b. 1896), Jean Gurney (b. 1899), and Helen Thayer (b. 1902). In religion, she was a Presbyterian . Jean Spahr died of pneumonia in New York City on September 25, 1935. In her will, she bequeathed US$ 10,000 for the endowment of graduate fellowships at Smith College. Third Street Music School Settlement Third Street Music School Settlement

184-547: The Rivington Street Settlement established during the late 19th-century settlement house movement . Wagner began teaching violin and piano to 10 students under the auspices of College Settlement of New York in the basement of Mariner's Temple . As she added students, the Music School moved to Rivington Street . Third Street Music School Settlement became an official entity in 1903 and was renamed Music School Settlement, with 13 volunteer faculty and 140 students, and 200 on

207-712: The "Art Workshop for Industrial and College Women", a change in programming initiated by the New York College Settlement five years earlier. Spehr was a member of the Smith College Alumnae Association, and served as president of the Present Day Club of Princeton. She was also active in woman's suffrage work. On July 5, 1892, at Princeton, New Jersey , she married Charles Barzillai Spahr , Ph.D. (1860–1904), political economist, author, and associate editor of

230-518: The East Side Recreation Society; stimulated the board of education to organize vacation school playgrounds; and took into residence one of the official school visitors. (4) Public schools. Close relations with the schools of the district. Since 1889, it endeavored to create public opinion in favor of adequate facilities for children of school age. Early placed small libraries in the schools; entered into hearty co-operation with

253-829: The Rivington Street Settlement was in keeping the needs of the district before the city; in educating the well-to-do to the human interest of the East Side; and in bringing the college women of the East to a knowledge of modern urban conditions. The Rivington Street Settlement maintained a kindergarten (nursing service discontinued); school visiting; gymnasium and boys' club house; athletic association; cooking school; gymnastic, singing and dancing class; clubs for married women, men, young people and children; entertainments, concerts, lectures, etc. Summer work included house open for dances and games; gymnasium organized as

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276-513: The United States, and was founded in New York City in 1894 by Emilie Wagner, a 27-year-old graduate of Goucher College . Wagner's goal was to "help poor children of the Lower East Side with music to provide a source of spiritual and cultural nourishment, inspire achievement in its young students, and serve as a universal language for the community’s Jewish, Irish, Italian, Russian, Greek and Hungarian immigrants." Its roots can be traced to

299-582: The bonds and become virtual possessor of the property. For many years, the Rivington Street Settlement carried on a series of sociological studies; largely into aspects of women's and children's life and labor. It also carried on a number of special local studies; into unemployment, 1894; data for the Tenement House Committee, 1894-1900; for the Reinhard Committee in 1895; into conditions of working women; into evictions in 1897;

322-593: The congestion exhibit and many others. (1) Housing. In 1894-5 and again in 1900, the Rivington Street Settlement gave testimony before housing commissions. In 1899-1900, four residents lived for a year in a neighborhood tenement, and reported findings on the experience. The Rivington Street Settlement provided material for the Congestion Exhibit in 1908. In addition, much educational work was done in reporting sanitary delinquencies and stimulating tenants to their own responsibility. (2) Streets and refuse. There

345-484: The headworker of the New York College Settlement from 1889 until her marriage in 1892, to Charles B. Spahr, a co-founder of the University Settlement Society of New York . Her focus was not on "do something for" the poor, but rather living with them and seeing them as equals. After her marriage, she continued as a director of the settlement. In 1935, she was serving as honorary president of

368-410: The local school board for eight years. (5) Labor. In 1894, the Rivington Street Settlement secured moral and financial support for the garment makers, and since that time, interested itself in such unions as it could reach. It gave testimony before all legislative committees and other organizations looking toward the betterment of the working conditions of women and children; and its various studies into

391-658: The original subscribers, to the amounts of the respective subscriptions, the New York Settlement undertaking to pay, in lieu of rent, the interest on these bonds, the taxes, insurance and outside repairs. the bonds did not fall due until 1922, but the right to redeem any or all of the in September or March of any year was specially reserved. It was hoped that the Settlement, through the generosity of its friends, would be enabled by gradual redemption to acquire all

414-535: The public and rendered assistance to its own clientele. The Rivington Street Settlement provided public baths for women; maintained a private playground in its yard; a library service, and for some years a visiting library service. The NYSC also started a music school which later developed into the Third Street Music School Settlement . In 1911, twelve women and two men resided at the Rivington Street Settlement. A potent factor of

437-539: The settlement being found willing to advance at four per cent, the $ 23,400 necessary to its purchase (equivalent to $ 800,000 in 2023), the Riving Settlement Company was organized to buy and hold the property for the Settlement's use, the officers of this company being the Treasurer of the Settlement and two of her predecessors in office. Mortgage bonds, bearing four per cent interest, were issued to

460-406: The teachers in efforts for individual children; carried on informal school visiting; provided a night school after the public night school closed; kindergartens; a special day class for children unprovided for; special work with backward children; and for some years at different times has had a resident as school inspector for the ward. The head worker of the Rivington Street Settlement was a member of

483-519: The work of women and children were potent in awakening public opinion. In connection with other agencies, it made numerous efforts to secure the enforcement of labor laws in the stores and factories of its quarter. (6) Economic. Assisted the University Settlement in its co-operative experiment of 1893. Headquarters for relief work in the economic depression of 1893-4; and in the depression of 1900 and 1907-8, kept neighborhood needs before

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506-404: Was constant work for better sanitary conditions. In 1894-5, the Rivington Street Settlement helped the commissioner of streets in a neighborhood publicity plan; in 1894, it protested against the unjust treatment of push-cart peddlers. (3) Play spaces. There was co-operation in the various movements for more parks and playgrounds. In 1897-8, the Rivington Street Settlement became the headquarters of

529-476: Was maintained by yearly donations from CSA and funds raised by local executive committee. Residents of the neighborhood were predominantly Jews. Early in the year 1891, No. 95 Rivington Street, which had been occupied by the Rivington Street Settlement ever since its foundation, was thrown suddenly upon the market. But the Settlement was not in a position financially to purchase the property, nor legally, being unincorporated, to hold it. At this crisis, six friends of

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