Haley House, Inc.
Dates
- Existence: 1966
Historical note
Haley House is a multi-faceted nonprofit organization located in Boston, Massachusetts focused on using food to build community. It was founded in 1966 by Kathe and John McKenna, inspired in part by the Catholic Worker Movement. They purchased property in the South End of Boston and opened Haley House as a soup kitchen in 1967, living in the rooms above.
In 1972, Haley House became Boston’s first homeless service provider to create permanent, affordable housing. From 1982-2012, Haley House ran Noonday Farm in Winchendon, Massachusetts, which supplied food for its soup kitchen. In the 1990s, programs were initiated to teach guests of the soup kitchen how to bake bread and to sell it to the South End community. In 2005, Haley House opened Haley House Bakery Café (HHBC) in Roxbury. HHBC offered economic opportunities for people with barriers to traditional employment, like those transitioning out of incarceration.
Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Identifier
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Haley House records
Records of the nonprofit organization Haley House, consisting of newsletters, community log books, administrative records, outreach materials, and an extensive photograph collection of its diverse community. The collection documents numerous activities of Haley House, including the Bakery Training Program, soup kitchen, housing developments, silent auctions, street fairs, operations of the Noonday Farm, and more.
Collection is open for research.
Negatives in box 1715 are not an access medium and are not available for use; print photographs in boxes 2 and 3 are available for access. Slides require use of a light box provided by the Burns Library Reading Room. The audiovisual and born-digital materials in Series V. are not available for playback due to format impermanence and have not been reformatted.