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Community Housing Project Group Records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG6-Q023

Scope and Contents

The collection contains proposals and studies made by the Community Housing Project Group, the house log which includes monthly business meeting minutes and topics of discussion, and commentary.

Dates

  • Creation: 1976-1982

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

Biographical / Historical

In 1976 a group of Swarthmore College students organized to propose a communal living experience within the context of the College housing. The group intended to work, study, and live together as an integral, intentional unit. The group was inspired by the Alternatives Movement and worked with faculty and administrators to find a suitable space and implement the experiment.

Ashton House was assigned to the Group which was composed of sixteen students. The first group of residents were part of the planning, knew each other well, and shared their vision of an ideal community and activisim. Beginning in the second year (Fall 1979), the residents became more diverse and tensions arose. By the spring of 1982, only one student signed up for housing in Ashton House, and the experiement dissolved.

Extent

1 linear ft. (2 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

In 1976 a group of Swarthmore College students organized to propose a communal living experience within the context of the College housing. The experiment ended after the Spring 1982 semester due to student disinterest. The collection contains proposals and studies, The Ashton House log which includes meeting minutes, informal log entries, and topics of discussion, and miscellaneous notes.

Arrangement

The collection is contained in 2 boxes.

Physical Location

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Creator: Community Housing Project Group (Swarthmore College)

Title
Community Housing Project Group Records, 1976-1982
Author
FHL staff
Date
2013
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English
Sponsor
Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries

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