dr. kohler.  jon miller's response is more general and useful than this
one, but you might also see my discussion of dashaway hall in san
francisco, erected on lower post street in 1868 by the dashaway
association, a popular, neo-washingtonian temperance organization founded
in 1859 and active until the late 1880s.  see j. baumohl, DASHAWAYS AND
DOCTORS:  THE TREATMENT OF HABITUAL DRUNKARDS IN SAN FRANCISCO FROM THE
GOLD RUSH TO PROHIBITION (university of california, berkeley, 1986).  this
property, and the facility of the san francisco home for the care of the
inebriate, figured in a melodramatic scandal in the 1890s which resulted in
california's law governing the distribution of property amassed originally
for charitable purposes.  dashaway hall was used essentially as jon
suggests in his brief discussion of other temperance halls.  it burned down
in the aftermath of the april 1906 earthquake, but there is a photo (circa
1878, as i recall) in the bancroft library in berkeley.  jb


At 03:09 PM 11/13/99 -0800, you wrote:
>                               November 13, 1999
>
>    At the turn of the century there were "temperance
>  halls" in many American cities.  Some of these
>  buildings have survived although they may now be
> in use for other purposes (e.g., as community
> centers).
>
>    What I'm curious about is which organization
> established and ran these temperance halls.  Since
> there were many temperance halls, they apparently
>were run as part of the program of some organization.
> Was it the WCTU?  Or possibly the Salvation Army?  Or
> maybe some branch of the woman suffrage movement?
> Or were they run by government as a kind of municipal
> shelter?
>
>   Exactly what activities were carried out at the
> temperance halls?  Public education?  Emergency
> shelter?  I've been unable to find any history of
> the temperance halls.
>
>    Specifically, there was a temperance hall at
> 403 Greenwich Street in Manhattan, New York City, at
> about 1880.  The building on that site today dates
>from about 1920 and so cannot have been the original
> temperance hall building.
>
>   I'd be grateful for any help or references that
>anyone can provide about these questions.
>
>Alfred Kohler,
>
>St. Francis College,
>Brooklyn,  New York   11201
>
>
>
>
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