Alfred E. Smith Houses, Building 12
60 Madison Street | also 54 Catherine Street, 60 Catherine Street, 20 Madison Street | Two Bridges | built 1950
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1953
Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at the dedication of the Smith Houses
When the Smith Houses were completed in 1953, Hamilton House, a Lower East Side settlement house founded in 1902, won the contract to provide social services there. Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the principal speaker at the dedication ceremony in March.
Source: hamiltonmadisonhouse.org
- 1954
Hamilton House and Madison House merge in Smith Houses space, with Shirley Chisholm running the child care center
In 1954 two settlement houses, Madison House (founded 1898) and Hamilton House (1902), merged as Hamilton-Madison House in the space allocated to them within the Alfred E. Smith Houses. Shirley Chisholm, later a congresswoman, was director of its child care center.
Source: hamiltonmadisonhouse.org
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