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Chapter 28: INDEX
By Fullerton L. Waldo
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The work opens with a portrait of the reformer whose practical ideals inspired a Philadelphia association, then traces the organization's founding, property acquisitions, and methods for preserving and improving modest family housing. It describes on-site inspections, renovations of courts and row houses, construction plans, and the supervisory oversight that coordinates trades and maintenance. The narrative highlights a policy of respectful oversight through rent-collection paired with guidance, fostering cleanliness, thrift, and neighborliness rather than charity. Financial analyses weigh costs and returns, while appendices and illustrations document layouts and before-and-after conditions across the association's growing portfolio.

INDEX

  • Agency properties, 71, 74
  • Agnes Irwin School, 44
  • Alms-giving; deprecated by Miss Hill, 15
  • Alpha Pi Fraternity, 44
  • Amsterdam, Miss Hill’s influence in, 17
  • Animals on premises, 37, 38
  • Artisans Dwelling Act, 15
  • Ashes, 84
  • Association, the Octavia Hill:
    • Its function, 8, 9
    • Its name, 11
    • Its history, 21–75
    • Its scope and field of effort, 77–102
    • Its financial returns, 103
  • Ayres, Alice, 16
  • Babies, 33
  • Bachelors, 74
  • Bath-tubs, 34
  • Berlin, Miss Hill’s influence in, 17
  • Boy Scouts, 19
  • Bricklaying, 8, 32
  • Browning Societies, 11
  • Building Association, Benevolent, 22
  • Building Inspection, Bureau of, 34
  • Burial Grounds, 17, 19
  • Cadets, 19
  • Carpentering, 8, 32, 66
  • Casa Ravello, 33
  • Catharine Street, 33
  • Chaucer, 20
  • Chicago, 21
  • Civic Club (Philadelphia), 21, 22, 25, 31
  • Clark, Mr. and Mrs. E. W., 43, 44
  • Collins, Ellen, 17
  • Crane, Walter, 16
  • Crenshaw, Nathaniel B., 22
  • Croats, 21
  • Dancing, 34
  • Deptford, 16
  • Dinwiddie, Emily W., 34–39
  • Directors (of the Association), 26
  • Dividends, 26, 60, 103–106
  • Doctors, 33
  • Dundee, Miss Hill’s influence in, 17
  • Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 16
  • Edinburgh, Miss Hill’s influence in, 17
  • Emergency Aid, 66
  • Fairhill Street property, 31
  • Feld, Frederick C., 27, 65
  • Flag-raising, 51
  • Flowers, use of, 18, 34, 44
  • Fox, Hannah, 22, 34
  • “Friendly rent-collector”: her function, 8, 18, 77–93, 104
  • Front Street, 43
  • Games for children, 14
  • Garbage, 38, 84
  • Gardens, home and school, 14, 59
  • Garrison, Miss, 27
  • Germantown, 51, 52
  • Gifford, Edith Wright, 22
  • Girard Estate, 72
  • Glasgow, Miss Hill’s influence in, 17
  • Good Neighbors’ Club, 43
  • Gould, Dr. E. R. L., 77
  • Graveyards, 17, 19
  • Hampstead Heath, 16
  • Hardware, 101, 102
  • Head, Mrs. E. L., 52
  • Health, Board of, 34, 40
  • Hector Macintosh Playground, 33
  • Hill, James, 11
  • Hill, Octavia
    • Her “legacy,”, 8
    • Her life and work, 11–20, 26, 77, 94
  • “Homes of London Poor” (Miss Hill’s book), 17, 18
  • Houses, various types of, acquired by Association, 28, 31
  • Housing Association, 40
  • Italians, 33, 38, 59, 92
  • Jenks, Mrs. William F., 22
  • Jews, 21, 28
  • Kingsley, Charles, inspires Miss Hill, 12
  • Kirkbride, Mrs. Thomas S., 25
  • Kyrle Society, 17
  • Laborers, 38
  • Landlords, 39, 83
  • League Street property, 31, 32, 33
  • Legacies, 71
  • Legislation, 39, 40
  • “Letters to My Fellow-workers” (Miss Hill’s book), 18
  • Lombard Street property, 31
  • London, Octavia Hill in, 11–20
  • Longstreth, Mrs. Edward, 31
  • Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 17
  • Ludington, Charles H., 74
  • MacMillan’s Magazine, 16
  • Mahomet’s coffin, 7
  • Manning, Caroline, 40
  • “Massenhotels,”, 21
  • Mifflin family, 43
  • Miller, E. Spencer, 37
  • Model Homes Company, Philadelphia, 60, 104
  • Mothers’ Club, 33
  • Multiple dwellings, 7
  • Music, 14, 19, 34, 51
  • Naudain Street, 66
  • Negroes, 33, 66, 93, 95, 104
  • New houses, building of, 72
  • New Orleans, 21
  • Nurses, 33
  • Office force (of Association), 27, 102
  • Old Swedes’ Church, 32
  • Open spaces, 15
  • “Our Common Land” (Miss Hill’s book), 8
  • Painting, 32, 66, 94
  • Parliament, Hill, 16
  • Parrish, Helen L., 26, 31, 34
  • Pemberton Street, 43
  • Pembroke, Lord, 16
  • Penn, William, 44
  • Personal workers, 39
  • Philadelphia:
    • City of homes, 7
    • “Under the Lid”, 21
  • Philadelphia Model Homes Company, 60
  • Philanthropy, 25, 26
  • Plastering, 8, 32, 66
  • Playgrounds, 14, 19, 33, 34, 51, 52, 60
  • Plumbing, 8, 25, 32, 37, 85, 94
  • Poles, 21, 51, 91
  • Poor laws, 17
  • Privy-wells, 96, 105
  • Properties, classification of agency, 71
  • Red Cross cottages, 16
  • Rent-collecting: duties of “friendly rent-collector,”, 8, 18, 77–93,104
  • Rents, 18, 32, 33, 34, 52, 65, 71, 75, 93, 103
  • Richmond (Kensington), 51, 59
  • Royal Commission, 17
  • Ruskin, John: his assistance in Miss Hill’s plans, 12, 13, 14
  • San Francisco, 21
  • Serbs, 96
  • Seventh Street, 33
  • Sewage, 37
  • Shaen, Mrs., letter from, 14
  • Shakespeare Societies, 11
  • Shick, Robert P., 34
  • Singing Community, 14
  • Slovaks, 21
  • Smith, Southwood, 11
  • Social Science Association, 15
  • Southwark, 16, 33
  • Starr, Theodore, 22, 31
  • Starr Centre Association, 33
  • Stock, issues of, 26
  • Summer school, 33
  • Superintendent: his work, 8, 9, 94–102
  • “Sweating,”, 39
  • Sweden, Miss Hill’s influence in, 17
  • Taylor, Frank H., 25
  • Tenants, 18, 32, 33, 39, 65, 72, 77, 83, 84
  • Tenements, 7, 37, 39
  • Tibet, 38
  • Trust, National, 17
  • Tunlin, 101
  • Types of houses, 28
  • University of Pennsylvania, 44
  • University Settlement, Women’s, 17
  • Van Gasken, Dr. Frances C., 34
  • Veiller, Lawrence, 37
  • Vienna, 21
  • Volunteer service, 27, 72
  • Whittier Centre, 66
  • Wilson, Alexander, 32
  • Women, Employment of, 11
  • Wood, R. Francis, 26
  • Woodward, Dr. George, 33, 37
  • Workman Place, 43
  • Yom Kippur, 38
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
  1. P. 78, changed “the signal for a fusillade of questions, petitions, complaints” to “the signal for a fusillade of questions, petitions, and complaints”.
  2. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  3. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.