Working Girls' Vacation Society Historic District
Working Girls' Vacation Society Historic District | |
Location | 60, 64 and 66 Mill Rd., East Haddam, Connecticut |
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Coordinates | 41°26′31″N 72°23′43″W / 41.44194°N 72.39528°W |
Area | 27 acres (11 ha) |
NRHP reference No. | 94000557[1] |
Added to NRHP | June 3, 1994 |
The Working Girls' Vacation Society Historic District is a 27-acre (11 ha)
The society is similar to the
A total of 411 working girls were assisted by the society in the summer of 1884. By 1915 the society had created several retreats in Connecticut and served 1450.[2]
The district includes three side-by-side properties on a rural road in East Haddam, Connecticut, with three houses and three barns.[2]
When listed, the district included six
The three other contributing buildings are 19th-century, wood-frame barns. The one at 66 Mill Road (photograph 5 in accompanying photos) "is similar in size and design to the ell on the Phebe Howell House, which tends to confirm oral history that this barn was formerly attached to the rear of the Charles Howell House."[2]
DiNapoli, writing in 1892, describes the working girls' plight.[3]
The association renamed in 1950 to become the Katherine Herbert Fund, named after the 1885 founder of the society. In 1974 it merged with the Stony Wold Corporation, an organization that had focused upon tuberculosis, to become the Stony Wold-Herbert Fund.[4]
See also
- Fernside-Vacation House for Working Girls, Princeton, Massachusetts, also NRHP-listed
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Connecticut
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e Gregory E. Andrews (April 1994). "NRHP Inventory-Nomination: Working Girls' Vacation Society Historic District". National Park Service. and Accompanying seven photos, exterior and interior, from 1993 (see photo captions page 20 of text document)
- ^ "Working Girls". San Francisco museum?.
- ^ "Welcome". Stony Wold Herbert Fund.