Exterior view of St. Martha's House, a settlement house founded on South Eighth Street in 1901 to provide social services to the neighborhood and to prepare young women for Church parrish work. St. Martha's House was supervised by Deaconess Jean Colesbury until 1930. Affiliation with the Protestant church weakened over time and the settlement's name changed to the Houston Community Center in 1966., Sheet number: 138B19., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Organizations (By Name) - 138]
