Lowell House (New Haven, Connecticut)

[2] In 1906, announcement was made of a gift of US$30,000 by Professor Henry Walcott Farnam to be used for the erection of a new building for the Lowell House.

Farnam was interested in the work of Lowell House, and was one of five Yale University professors who, together with several women of New Haven, composed the Council of the organization.

[2] Lowell House maintained a noon lunch ciub for factory girls, a dispensary, a bank, and a branch of the public library.

[2] In the Lowell House library, all the readers were children, except for the few foreign language books read hy adults.

[5] Piano lessons and practice were available, as well as classes in sewing, drawing, cooking, carving, kitchen gardening, painting, iron work, dressmaking, and basketry.

[6] In 1926, representing the club and its opposition to the amending of the National Prohibition Act, Porter spoke before Congress:—[7] I am president of the New Haven Women's Church Union of 60 churches; president of the New Haven Lowell House Mothers' Club for 25 years; chairman of religious training for Connecticut Congress of Mothers, representing 8,000.

As president for more than 25 years of a mothers' club, I know the misery of families where the husband and father was too weak to resist the saloon on pay day.