AR:B4d1.8, P&E 236. "The Parabiographies": Working People's Cottages for Henry B. Babson, project [Lyons, Illinois] (1914)

Text by William Gray Purcell

for 1914 Project Date (in Parabiography): March 6, 1914

Working People's Cottages, Lyons, Ill.

Mr. Babson had some idea of going into an altruistic enterprise that should alleviate housing conditions among the lowest paid class of workers. We made some sketches and had various conferences on this project, but it was finally abandoned.