Clara de Hirsch Home for Working Girls

Clara de Hirsch Home for Working Girls was a non-sectarian teenage girls' home in New York City, New York, US, located at 225 East 63rd Street. Incorporated in 1897, it was supported by endowment. Clara de Hirsch 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.{{cite book|title=Directory of Social and Health Agencies of New York City|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KKk7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA86|edition=Public domain|year=1919|publisher=Columbia University Press|pages=86–}} Mrs. Oscar S. Strauss served as president, Carrie Wise was secretary, and Rose Sommerfield, was the resident director.{{cite book|title=The New York Charities Directory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xCcrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA300|edition=Public domain|year=1911|publisher=Charity Organization Society in the City of New York|pages=300–}} In 1960, the board of directors sold the building and in the following year, the organization merged with the 92nd Street YMHA.{{cite web|last1=Friedman|first1=Reena Sigman|title=Clara De Hirsch Home for Working Girls|url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/clara-de-hirsch-home-for-working-girls|publisher=Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia|accessdate=30 March 2015|date=1 March 2009}}