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The House on Henry Street APF it is not only theChronicles the sweeping history of the storied Henry Street Settlement and its enduring vision of a more just society On a cold March day in 1893, 26 year old nurse Lillian Wald rushed through the poverty stricken streets of New Yorks Lower East Side to a squalid bedroom where a young mother lay dying abandoned by her doctor because she could not pay his fee. The misery in the room and the walk to reach it inspired Wald to establish Henry Street