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Casa de Castelar
1894 – 1910
Casa de Castelar (later, The College Settlement) was an American settlement in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in February 1894, during the settlement movement era, by a local branch of the College Settlements Association called the Los Angeles Settlement Association (LASA). Casa de Castelar was the first settlement house in the city, and the first settlement house west of the Mississippi River.
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It was founded in February 1894, during the settlement movement era, by a local branch of the College Settlements Association called the Los Angeles Settlement Association (LASA).
After renting quarters at various points in the district north of the Plaza, adjacent to North Broadway, in 1897, a house was occupied in the pueblo in Sonoratown at the corner of Alpine and Castelar Streets and a settlement house with resident workers was established.
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