Organizational forms and architectural space: Building meaning in charitable organizations in New York City, 1770 to 1920

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 459-487

  Guerra Pearson, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032283455     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764098274005     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. Appleton, D. (1891). Appleton's dictionary of New York and its vicinity, 1891. New York: Author.
2. Appleton, F. (1906). Church philanthropy in New York: A study of the philanthropic institutions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the city of New York (Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 1990). Dissertation Abstracts, 54, 0448.
3. Architectural features. (1885). In New York Illustrated (pp. 101-122). New York: D. Appleton.
4. Baum, J., & Oliver, C. (1992). Institutional embeddedness and the dynamics of organizational populations. American Sociological Review, 57, 540-559.
5. Bellah, R. N., Madsen, R., Tipton, S. M., Sullivan, W. M., & Swidler, A. (1985). Habits of the heart: Individualism and commitment in American life. New York: HarperCollins.
6. Blunt, E. (1817). Blunt's stranger's guide to the city of New-York. New York: Edmund M. Blunt & J. Seymour.
7. Bourdieu, P. (1992). The rules of art: Genesis and structure of the literary field (S. Emanuel, Trans.). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
8. Boyer, C. C. (1985). Manhattan manners: Architecture and style, 1850-1900. New York: Rizzoli.
9. Cammann H. J., & Camp, H. N. (1868). The charities of New York, Brooklyn, and Staten Island. New York: Hurd and Houghton.
10. Ceremonies, etc. Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. (1853). New-York: George F. Nesbitt.
11. Cohen, S. (1992). The evolution of women's asylums since 1500. New York: Oxford University Press.
12. Cromley, E. (1990). Alone together: A history of New York's early apartments. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
13. de Tocqueville, A. (1845). Democracy in America (H. Reeve, Trans.) (4th ed., Vol. 2). New York: Henry G. Langley.
14. Diamonstein, B. (1998). The landmarks of New York III New York: Henry N. Abrams.
15. DiMaggio, P., & Powell, W. (Eds.). (1991). Introduction. In P. DiMaggio & W. Powell (Eds.), The new institutionalism in organizational analysis (pp. 1-38). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
16. Directory of Social Agencies of New York, (31 st ed.). (1922). L. D. Miller (Ed.). New York: Charitable Organization Society.
17. Disturnell, J. (1837). New-York as it is, in 1837: Containing a general description of the city of New-York, list of officers, public institutions, and other useful information. New York: Tanner and Disturnell.
18. Eighty-eighth annual report of the Colored Orphan Asylum and Association for the Benefit of Colored Children in the city of New York, for the year ending October 31, 1924. (1924). New York: Colored Orphan Asylum.
19. Ellington, G. (1870). The women of New York or social life in the great city. New York: The New York Book Company.
20. Foucault, M. (1979). Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison (A. Sheridan, Trans.). New York: Vintage.
21. Francis, C. S. (1856). Francis's new guide to the cities of New-York and Brooklyn, and the vicinity. New York: C. S. Francis & Co.
22. Franzosi, R. & Mohr, J. W. (1997). New directions in formalization and historical analysis. Theory and Society, 26(2-3), 133-160.
23. From Cherry Street to green pastures, 1836-1936: A history of the Colored Orphan Asylum at Riverdale-on-Hudson (1936). New York: Colored Orphan Asylum.
24. Godden, J. (1987). Sectarianism and purity within the women's sphere: Sydney refuges during the late nineteenth century. Journal of Religious History, 14, 296, 300.
25. Greene, A. (1837). A glance at New York. New York: Author.
26. Guerra-Pearson, F. (1998). Charitable buildings on Christian soil: Religious space and the burdens of government (PONPO Working Paper No. 249). New Haven, CT: Yale University's Program on Non-Profit Organizations.
27. Hall, P. (1993). Reviews. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 22, 167-183.
28. Hall, P. (1995). Theories and institutions. Nonprofit and Voluntary Section Quarterly, 24, 5-13.
29. Hall, P. (1997). Apples and oranges: Definitional dilemmas in assessing the place of religion in the organizational universe. Paper presented at Independent Sector's Spring Research Forum, Alexandria, Virginia.
30. Hannan, M. & Freeman, J. (1977). The population ecology of organizations. American Journal of Sociology, 82, 929-964.
31. A history of real estate, building, and architecture in New York during the last half a century. (1971). New York: Arno. (Originally published in 1898 by Real Estate Record Association)
32. Jandl, H. (1992). The challenge of adapting historic institutional buildings to new uses. In L. H. Schneekloth, M. F. Feuerstein, & B. A. Campagna (Eds.), Changing places: Remaking institutional buildings (pp. 213-223). New York: White Pine Press.
33. Jeavons, T. (1993). Identifying characteristics of 'religious' organizations: an exploratory proposal (PONPO Working Paper No. 197). New Haven, CT: Yale University's Program on Non-Profit Organizations.
34. King, M. (Ed.). (1893). King's handbook of New York City. Boston: Moses King.
35. Letchworth, W. P. (1876). Extract from the ninth annual report of the State Board of Charities of the State of New York, relating to orphan asylums and other institutions for the care of children. Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co.
36. Lockwood, C. (1972). Bricks and brownstones: The New York row house, 1783-1929, an architectural and social history. New York: McGraw-Hill.
37. Lockwood, C. (1976). Manhattan moves uptown: An illustrated history. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
38. Lossing, B. J. (1888). The empire state: A compendious history of the commonwealth of New York. Hartford, CT: American.
39. Meyer, J. W., & Rowan, B. (1977). Institutionalized organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony. American Journal of Sociology, 83, 340-363.
40. Mohr, J. (1992a). Community, bureaucracy and social relief: An institutional analysis of organizational forms in New York City, 1888-1917. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
41. Mohr, J. (1992b). People, categories and organizations: making sense out of poverty in New York City, 1888-1917. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh.
42. Mohr, J. (1993). Tracking categorization practices among poverty organizations in New York City, 1888-1917. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Baltimore.
43. Mohr, J. (1994). Soldiers, mothers, tramps and others: discourse roles in the 1907 New York City charity directory. Poetics. Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media, and the Arts, 22, 327-357.
44. Mohr, J. (1998). Measuring meaning structures. Annual Review of Sociology, 24, 333-358.
45. Mohr, J., & Duquenne, V. (1997). The duality of culture and practice: Poverty relief in New York City, 1888-1917. Theory and Society, 26, 305-356.
46. Mohr, J., & Guerra-Pearson, F. (1996). The effect of state intervention in the nonprofit sector: the case of the new deal. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 25, 525-539.
47. Mohr, J., & Guerra-Pearson, F. (in press). The differentiation of institutional space: Organizational forms in the New York social welfare sector, 1888-1917. In W. Powell & D. Jones (Eds.), Bending the bars of the iron cage. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
48. Newton, W. W. (1890). American religious leaders: Dr. Muhlenberg. New York: Houghton, Mifflin.
49. Peet, H. (1847). Address delivered at the New York institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb, December 2d, 1846. With an appendix containing the proceedings at the dedication of the chapel. New York: Egbert, Hovey & King.
50. Peirce, B. K. (1869). A half century with juvenile delinquents; or, The New York house of refuge and its times. New York: D. Appleton.
51. Phelps's New York City guide; Being a pocket directory for strangers and citizens to the prominent objects of interest in the great commercial metropolis, and conductor to its environs. With engravings of public buildings. (1853). New York: T. C. Fanning.
52. Richmond, J. (1872). New York and its institutions, 1609-1872. New York: E. B. Treat.
53. Robinson, J. (1994). The question of type. In Schneekloth & Franck (Eds.), Ordering space: Types in architecture and design (pp. 179-192). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
54. Salamon, L. M. (1987). Partners in public service: The scope and theory of government-nonprofit relations. In W. W. Powell (Ed.), The nonprofit sector: A research handbook (pp. 99-117). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
55. Schneekloth, L. H., Feuerstein, M. F., & Campagna, B. A. (Eds.). (1992). Changing places: Remaking institutional buildings. New York: White Pine Press.
56. Scott, J. (1995). Some thoughts on theory development in the voluntary and nonprofit sector. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 24, 31-40.
57. Stanton, P. (1997). The gothic revival and American church architecture: An episode in taste, 1840-1856. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (Original work published 1968)
58. State Board of Charities of the State of New York. (1898). Thirty-first annual report of the State Board of Charities of the state of New York. Albany: J. B. Lyon.
59. Stern, R.A.M., Gilmartin, G., & Massengale, J. M. (1983). New York 1900: Metropolitan architecture and urbanism, 1890-1915. New York: Rizzoli.
60. Taylor, J. (1991). Hospital and asylum architecture in England, 1840-1914: Building for health. London: Mansell.
61. Vanderburgh, D. (1994). Typification and the building of society: 'The absent patron.' In Schneekloth and Franck (Eds.), Ordering space: Types in architecture and design (pp. 315-330). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
62. Weiler, N. (1992, Fall). Religion, ethnicity and the development of private homes for the aged. Journal of American Ethnic History, 64-90.
63. Weiner, D. (1995). Architecture and social reform in late-Victorian London. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
64. White, N. (1987). New York: A physical history. New York, Atheneum.
65. Willensky, E., & White, N. (1988). AIA guide to New York City. New York: Harcourt Brace.
66. The work of a state board of charities. (1898, November). The Charities Review, pp. 426-436.
67. Worthington, M. G. (1915). Fifty benevolent and social institutions in and near New York: A brief guide for visitors. New York: Douglas C. McMurtie.