J. Clement French Industrial Home

Title

J. Clement French Industrial Home

Description

A Christian Home for homeless white men. The Home conducted religious services nightly, but attendance was not compulsory. Men were compelled to work for their lodgings and good. The Home had a capacity of 95 beds. The house owned a burying plot and provided free burial for inmates who died in the home.

Date

1912

State

demolished

Condition History

Existed in 1912 at 51 Plane Street.

Bibliography

March 24, 1899. The Courier-News from Bridgewater, New Jersey. p.5

March 9, 1912. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York. p.2

Koren, John and William Alexander King. Benevolent Institutions 1904. United States Buearu of Census. Government Printing Office 1905.

Resources for social service, charitable, civic, educational, religious, of Newark, New Jersey; a classified and descriptive directory. Newark Bureau of Associated Charities. Newark. 1907. p.7

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