Clara de Hirsch Home for Working Girls was a non-sectarian teenage girls' home in New York City,

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, US, located at 225 East 63rd Street. Incorporated in 1897, it was supported by endowment.

Clara de Hirsch Clara de Hirsch (born Claire Bischoffsheim; June 18, 1833 – April 1, 1899), also known as Baroness de Hirsch, was a Belgian businesswoman and philanthropist of the Bischoffsheim family. She was the wife of Baron Maurice de Hirsch. Early life an ...

donated $200,000. Participating girls were between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years. They paid $3.00 to $6.00 a week for board and lodging. The Hirsch Home's mission was improve the girls' mental, moral, and physical condition; and to train them for self-support. It maintained trade classes in hand sewing, machine operating, dressmaking, and millinery. Mrs. Oscar S. Strauss served as president, Carrie Wise was secretary, and

Rose Sommerfield Rose Sommerfield (1874–1952) was an American teacher, activist, and social worker. She helped to develop the first home for Jewish working girls in the United States. Career Teacher Sommerfield taught in the public schools of Baltimore, Maryland ...

, was the resident director. In 1960, the board of directors sold the building and in the following year, the organization merged with the 92nd Street

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