Denison House is established.

(Dec.) Founded by Emily Greene Balch, Helena Dudley, and Vida Scudder and the College Settlement House Association, it is located initially in a row house at 93 Tyler Street. The third settlement house in the U.S., it offers English classes for immigrants, operates a medical dispensary, a shop that sells crafts produced by local women, and a “model tenement,” whose resident include Amelia Earhart and Mary Kenney O’Sullivan. The organization moves becomes part of the Federated Dorchester Neighborhood Houses and moves to Dorchester in 1942. The original building is subsequently demolished and the site is now occupied by the Asian American Civic Association and the Kwong Kow School.