1917

Copyright 1917

by

Harper Printing Company

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I
Page
Foreword [7]
II
Octavia Hill [11]
III
The Association [21]
IV
Days Afield [77]
V
Does it Pay? [103]
VI
Appendices [111]–121
Index [123]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Page
Portrait of Octavia Hill[Frontispiece]
A court improved[20]
Calling for a change[23]
Montrose Street[29]
Casa Ravello[35]
Monroe Street[41]
Workman Place[45]
Workman Place—Interior view of yard[47]
Interior view of Workman Place[49]
East Rittenhouse St., Germantown[53]
East Rittenhouse St., rear, after improvement[55]
New Houses—East Rittenhouse St. property[57]
Plan of dwellings for the Philadelphia Model Homes Company[61]
Plans of Richmond Houses[62]–64
Houses of the Richmond Group—Playground in the rear[67]
Gaul St. houses, Richmond Group[69]
Chart showing the increase in the number of properties owned by the Octavia Hill Association from 1896 to 1915[73]
Philadelphia homes altered to tenement houses[79]
Franklin Court before renovation[87]
Franklin Court after renovation[89]
Court of North Third St. property before renovation[97]
Court of North Third St. property after renovation[99]

I
FOREWORD