Henry Street Settlement

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The Henry Street Settlement is a not-for-profit social service agency in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City that provides social services, arts programs and health care services to New Yorkers of all ages. It was founded in 1893 by Progressive reformer and nurse Lillian Wald.

Constructed, 1827
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1st school nurse-Lina was hired upon the recommendation of Lilian Wald. Ms. Wald,  a public health nurse and founder of the Henry Street Settlement (an organization that provided home visiting nursing services to the immigrant poor on the Lower East Side of New York).
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