Then the next day John Bull and McCarthy came in with talk of a funeral the day before. But John Bull and his chum McCarthy did not appear on the morning they were invited, and the residents feared their first attempt at a Boys’ Club was a failure. January 30: Invitation to ‘John Bull’ (so called), to bring his friends in next Monday morning, to form a club at the house.Woods joined the Ward 16 Conference of Associated Charities. Bevington moved in, completing the corps engaged. January 17: First meals served in the house.January 12: Miss Long moved in and assumed charge of housekeeping arrangements.Woods came in from Andover … shades put up. Chandler … very little furniture on hand-no shades-only five rooms carpeted. January 1: First one to take up residence: E.Chandler, the first resident of Andover House, the following activities were noted: They started clubs for boys and girls and organized a literary society for young men and women. Andover House opened with four men in residence in 1892. Woods was appointed as the first Head Worker. 1887 Women’s College Settlement, New York.At the time there were four others in existence: A voluntary committee of ladies began to furnish the house.īoston’s First Settlement: Andover House was the first settlement in Boston. Tucker as President, chose 6 Rollins Street as the location for Andover House. Thanks to the warm reception of the idea, a second meeting was set up in order to perfect the organization.In December, the Association, with William J. This meeting was held at the Union Congregational Church on Columbus Avenue in Boston’s South End in October. Tucker, discussed at length the possibility of establishing a similar center of “social Christianity” in Boston.It was in 1891 that Professor Tucker invited interested persons to attend a meeting to organize Andover House in Boston. On his return, The lectures Woods gave at the Andover seminary describing his experiences at Toynbee Hall were published in 1891 as: English Social Movements.Īfter young Woods returned from his London visit of six months, he and his mentor, Professor William J. For six months he studied English efforts to help the poor and absorbed the ideas and experiences of Canon Barnett. Robert Archey Woods, a new graduate of Andover Theological Seminary was selected by his mentor to visit London and become a resident of Toynbee Hall. For example, Jane Addams and her friend Ellen Gates Starr founded Hull House in 1889 on the South side of Chicago, Illinois after being inspired by visiting Toynbee Hall. Many visitors interested in the “practical application of Christianity” were attracted to Toynbee Hall to study their pioneer efforts.
Canon Barnett’s work and the development of Toynbee Hall became the example and inspiration for the establishment of many more settlements, both in England and the United States. In 1885 Toynbee Hall was established in the East End of London. Barnett conceived the plan for the first “university settlement” as a means to give Oxford University men the opportunity to live and work among the poor.
Introduction: Arnold Toynbee and Reverend Samuel A. Woods was the first head worker at South End House and remained in that position until his death. Kennedy who collaborated on this study of settlements in existence at that time. It is an extraordinary piece of history for this entry because the authors of the Handbook were Robert A. In the Handbook, there is a detailed description of South End House under the the section on Massachusetts.
The materials used include: The Development of USES – A Chronology of the United South End Settlement Houses: 1891 –1966, by Albert Boer and the HANDBOOK OF SETTLEMENTS, published by The Russell Sage Foundation of New York in 1911. Note: This is a long entry that uses original source materials to describe the first twenty years of programming, neighborhood betterment and other accomplishments by the staff and volunteers of South End House (1891 - 1911). Origins of South End House, Boston, Massachusetts
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