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Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch was born on September 8, 1867 in Chestnut Hill, Massachussets, the daughter of Isaac Franklin Kingsbury, a businessman and civil servant, and Laura Holmes Kingsbury.
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Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch was born on September 8, 1867 in Chestnut Hill, Massachussets, the daughter of Isaac Franklin Kingsbury, a businessman and civil servant, and Laura Holmes Kingsbury.
After graduation from Boston University in 1890, she taught Latin at Somerville (Massachussets) High School for two years before continuing her studies in economics and sociology at Radcliffe, the University of Berlin, and Columbia University.
In Boston she had been influenced by the Christian socialism of W. D. P. Bliss and by the settlement movement, especially the work of Emily Balch, Helena Dudley, and Vida Scudder at Denison House. Kingsbury moved to New York in 1897 and lived at the College Settlement, then under the direction of Jane Robbins.
There she met the Lower East Side reformers, including Charles Stover and James K. Paulding, who were trying to confront the problems of the overcrowded, industrial city. Under their influence she joined the movement to promote better housing and to create more parks and playgrounds. These reforms occupied her for the rest of her life.
In 1898 Kingsbury became head resident of Friendly Aid House in New York but resigned in 1902 because the board restricted her political and reform activities. In 1902 she organized and became head resident of Greenwich House, a position she held until 1946.
She married Vladimir Simkhovitch. Simkhovitch shared her interest in settlement work and reform. Under Mary Simkhovitch, Greenwich House became one of the country's leading settlements and the cultural and social center of Greenwich Village. She established a little theater and a kindergarten, encouraged neighborhood festivals, and organized courses in industrial education. John Dewey was a member of the educational committee, and Eleanor Roosevelt was a frequent visitor. Hundreds of young residents - including Crystal Eastman, an editor and pacifist; Louis Pink, housing reformer and expert on social insurance; Zona Gale, a novelist; and Frances Perkins, who became the first woman cabinet member - had their lives transformed by residence at the settlement.
A leader in the movement to revive the urban neighborhood, Simkhovitch was a member of the Outdoor Recreation League, which promoted the use of parks and playgrounds; she also was chairman of the Committee on the Congestion of Population that organized the first national conference on city planning in 1909.
She published The City Worker's World (1917); Here Is God's Plenty (1949); and her autobiography, Neighborhood: My Story of Greenwich House (1938), as well as many articles.
Simkhovitch helped organize the Association of Neighborhood Workers (later the United Neighborhood Houses), an organization of settlement workers in New York, and was a founder of the New York branch of the Women's Trade Union League. She was elected president of the National Federation of Settlements in 1917.
She helped to organize and was president of the Public Housing Conference in 1931.
She served as vice-chairman of the New York City Housing Authority (1934 - 1948) and was on the advisory committee of the Public Works Administration. A friend suggested that any monument to commemorate Simkhovitch's service should be erected in Hudson Park, the playground next door to Greenwich House.
She died in New York City.
She was a persuasive speaker and an excellent writer. She made an important contribution to the public housing provision of the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933 when she helped to convince Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes to include federal housing in public works projects. She also played a part in drafting the Wagner-Steagall Housing Act (1937).
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Simkhovitch argued for better distribution of population, improved transportation, restricted population density, and, above all, the recreation of the neighborhood and city planning on a regional basis. She was also leader in the movement to make schools into neighborhood centers.
She was described as "a ferment, a yeast in the community, " who tried "to make people realize the necessity for a different world, a better community. "
On January 7, 1899, she married Vladimir Simkhovitch, professor of economic history at Columbia,
