Adélaïde de Bethune (1914-2002), known as Ade Bethune, was born in Brussels, Belgium. She and her family immigrated to the United States and settled in New York in 1928. Here, she attended Cathedral High School, the National Academy of Design, and Cooper Union. Newport, Rhode Island became her permanent home in 1938.
While still living in New York in the 1930s, her experiences with the Catholic Worker movement gave her an outlet to help shape her social justice beliefs and to develop skills in social justice activities—specifically public speaking and writing. These experiences carried over into her involvement in the many local organizations and social justice concerns with which she was active later in life, including the Church Community Housing Corporation (CCHC). In addition, Ade became well known as a liturgical artist and architectural consultant. The skills and experience gained from this work gave her a foundation for the design of CCHC housing project plans.
Ade Bethune served on the founding Board of Directors of the CCHC and remained on the board throughout her life; she held the position of Treasurer from 1970-1976, of Vice President from 1977-1978, and of President during 1979. As well as being an active member of the Board of Directors, she contributed to the CCHC through the architectural design of many of the CCHC new homes and rehabilitation projects. She conducted much of the research to design and coordinate the construction of the CCHC Solar House, which was the first solar house in Newport, Rhode Island. She also put her skills to work in the artwork, layout, and editing for logos, publications, and newsletters associated with CCHC activities and CCHC sponsored property projects. Bethune remained actively involved in this and other local organizations concerned with social and environmental issues until her death in 2002.
The Church Community Corporation was incorporated in Newport, Rhode Island on November 18, 1969. The name was changed to the Church Community Housing Corporation (CCHC) in 1985. Its founders include Phil and Alma Stocklin, Sister Francis Xavier, Canon Lockett Ballard, Frank Boyle, Peter Grimes, and Lyle Matthews. CCHC started operations in July 1970 and the officers of the first Board of Directors were Hershel M. Carter, President; Rev. Canon Lockett F. Ballard, Vice President; Alma K. Stocklin, Secretary, and Ade Bethune, Treasurer.
CCHC was established as a non-profit organization whose aim was to help low and moderate-income citizens of Aquidneck Island, and later, all of Newport County, to live in safe and affordable housing. It has used the help of local, state, and federal programs and private and foundational support to carry out projects of homeownership, house rehabilitation, neighborhood revitalization, low income rental housing, emergency and transitional housing, special needs housing, housing for the elderly, and homeowner/buyer education.
Over the years, a small staff helped to carry out the CCHC operations. At various times, staff members included an executive director, housing specialist, office assistant, and rehab supervisor. Volunteers were also used to help with the labor of housing rehabilitation and new house construction; these included Rogers High School carpentry students, VISTA volunteers, the Neighborhood Youth Corps program, and other volunteers from the community.
Funding for the first years of the CCHC’s activities came from loans and grants from the Rhode Island Department of Community Affairs and from donations made by churches, community organizations, and private entities. Through the utilization of Section 235 of the 1968 Housing Act for low income mortgage financing, CCHC built & rehabilitated 33 single family homes to sell to low income families at a reduced initial mortgage cost and low interest. The CCHC also became a Section 237 Home Ownership Counseling Agency in which participant homebuyers may be granted FHA insured mortgages.
In 1973, with the discontinuation of the Section 235 program and the withdrawal of the US Navy operations in the area, the CCHC changed its focus to rehabilitating properties with the purpose of renting to low income families under the new US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Section 8 program. The Navy withdrawal brought about a decline in local incomes and a surplus of vacant properties.
In 1976 the CCHC was given authority by the City of Newport City Council to administer Community Development Block Grant funding received by the city through the Redevelopment Agency of Rhode Island’s Residential Rehabilitation Loan and Grant program which was established through the Community Development Act of 1974. The loan & grant program helped existing homeowners make health and safety related improvements.
Later, CCHC expanded to serve all of Newport County, which includes the cities of Middletown, Portsmouth, Jamestown, Tiverton, and Little Compton. As its scope expanded, it worked with the Rhode Island Housing Mortgage Finance Corp. (RIHMFC) to administer Community Development Block Grant money to the cities of Newport County.
In the 1990s CCHC helped in establishing additional housing programs. In 1992 it established its Newport Community Land Trust program in which CCHC kept the rights to the land of CCHC rehabilitated homes so that the homes located on the land will continue to be sold to low and moderate income families. In addition, the CCHC Homebuyer Club was established as a homebuyer education program. During this time, CCHC also helped local communities establish a Homeownership Assistance Loan Program and a Residential Rehabilitation Revolving Loan Fund. The first was intended to help low to moderate income homebuyers with no-interest loans to be used as a down payment, and the latter provided homeowners with low interest loans for rehabilitation improvements.
Over the years, grant funding for specific projects was applied for and received from the Peyton Hazard Foundation, the Housing Assistance Section of DCA, the Urban Emergency Fund of United Way, the Campaign for Human Development, the City of Newport, and HUD. The RI Department of Community Affairs and the New England Non-Profit Housing Development Corporation (NENPHDC) in Concord, New Hampshire also helped in providing technical assistance and in providing seed money for property acquisitions.
Unique among the CCHC’s housing projects was the Solar House located on Halsey Street; it was the first solar house in the city of Newport. Much of the collection for the years of 1975-1976 is dedicated to the work that Bethune put into the design, planning, funding, and coordination of this project. While many of the CCHC’s early housing projects were house rehabilitation projects, the Solar House was new construction done in cooperation with a class from the Rogers Vocational School. Architectural plans for the house construction include plans for the incorporation of solar heating technologies.
Other housing projects with a specific focus included elderly housing and other special needs housing. Elderly housing projects included Mumford Manor in the City of Newport, Forest Farm Assisted Living in Middletown, Pemberton Place in Jamestown, Anthony House in Portsmouth, and West House in Middletown. Projects to address special housing needs include Villa Nia, in Middletown, a development of 15 accessible houses for those with physical disabilities; Oxford House, to support recovery of drug or alcohol abuse; and Washington Square, which provides apartments, transitional, and emergency housing facilities for the homeless.
The CCHC also helped sponsor Harbor House in the City of Newport, an elderly cooperative community with mixed incomes. This project was incorporated into the Star of the Sea Corporation.
These materials document the activities of the CCHC and its board of directors in Newport County, Rhode Island from its inception in 1969 into 2001. Some materials published prior to those dates, but used in research for CCHC projects and activities, are also included. While not a complete record of the organization’s activities, this collection represents materials created and/or used by one of its board members, Ade Bethune.
The collection mostly includes business documents, architectural plans and sketches, photos, slides, books, booklets, and pamphlets related to the Board of Director’s main activities of securing funding and administering housing projects and programs. Types of documents include correspondence, board meeting minutes and agendas, publicity documents, fundraising documents, financial records, and research literature. Bethune played a large role in the creation of most of the photos, slides, and architectural plans and sketches included in the collection; these were generated in the planning of many of the housing projects. Bethune was very active in one particular project, the Solar House. This project includes a large amount of administrative and architectural materials.
The collection is arranged in 6 sections.
[Series], Church Community Housing Corporation Materials, Ade Bethune Papers. Ade Bethune Collection. St. Catherine University Library, St. Paul, MN 55105.
Ade Bethune donated her personal and business papers, sketches, artwork, books, and artifacts to the College of St Catherine (now St. Catherine University) over the period from 1984-2002.
The collection was processed and the finding aid written by Louann Terveer, February 2010-Janury 2011.
These are materials that were created and/or used by the CCHC Board of Directors through its organizational activities. Materials include organizational documents, correspondence, funding proposals, newspaper articles, and publicity materials. A large portion of this series originates from the 1970s when Bethune was Treasurer (1970-1976), Vice President (1977-1978), and President (1979) of the CCHC Board of Directors.
Placed alphabetically into 6 series.
This series contains documents related to the incorporation of the CCHC and the workings of its Board of Directors. Includes meeting agendas and minutes, other documents from board meetings, bylaws, and memos. Also includes annual reports from the CCHC Board of Directors highlighting yearly accomplishments and goals.
Contains the 1979 President's report written by Ade Bethune serving as President. Also contains annual report booklets and newspaper inserts designed by Bethune.
Grouped into 4 sections, in alphabetical order: Agendas & Minutes, Annual Reports & Annual Meetings, Bylaws, and Memos. The first 2 sections, Agendas & Minutes and Annual Reports & Annual Meetings, are further divided.
Additional materials may be found in Series 1.2: Administrative--Correspondence; Series 1.3: Administrative--Financial; Series 1.4: Administrative--Funding and Fundraising; Series 1.5: Administrative--General; and Photos and Slides.
Arranged mostly chronologically. Some folders cover several years and there is some overlapping of years between folders.
Correspondence, memos, minutes, financial reports, newspaper clippings, research materials, and documents related to creation of the board and the organizational bylaws.
Minutes, memos, agenda, correspondence.
Arranged chronologically
First publication of the CCHC. Outlines CCHC purpose, plans, and fundraising goals.
Annual Meeting documents only.
Annual reports and newspaper photos utilized in creating report booklet.
Floppy disc label: Jensen CCHC P.R.
Newspaper insert celebrating 25 years of CCHC; includes preliminary design and text.
Preliminary text and design for a newspaper insert celebrating the CCHC 30 year anniversary. Floppy Disc title: 30th Anniversary Articles.
2000 annual report and 2001 Annual Meeting; Floppy Disc title: CCHC 2000
Also includes documents that support the development of the organization and draft of strategic plan with goals and objectives.
Series includes correspondence to and from various organizations and individuals with which the CCHC worked or from which board members gathered information or support.
Organized alphabetically by file name
Additional materials may be found in Series 1.1: Administrative, Board; Series 1.4: Administrative, Funding and Fundraising; and Series 1.5: Administrative, General.
Includes informational booklets and other information from the American Institute of Architects.
Includes a pamphlet and correspondence to Rev. Francis Giudice.
Correspondence to TRIP (Troy Rehabilitation & Improvement Program) Executive Director and program booklets.
Includes booklet on organization with similar goals and Rhode Island housing report.
Includes correspondence with IRS regarding tax exempt status and invoices from Mr. Boyle for legal services
Includes some memos and correspondence regarding outstanding promissory notes.
Comprised mostly of correspondence to governmental and funding agencies.
Photocopies of letters, photos, and newspaper clipping.
Correspondence to Rhode Island House Judiciary Committee Chairman.
Includes street engineering maps for Memorial Boulevard.
Regarding request for engineering help for solar retrofit of St. Paul's Priory.
Includes copy of "Buy & Sell Agreement" for 78 & 79 Burnside Ave.
Correspondence from the early years of the organization which includes those regarding information gathering, building organizational support, and the hiring of staff.
Series includes organizational budget, balance, and expense information as well as financial information for individual properties owned by the CCHC. Also includes invoices and other insurance documents and some misc. Board related documents.
Organized alphabetically by file name
Additional materials may be found in Series 1.1: Administrative, Board. Particularly, financial reports prepared for the board may be found with individual meeting minutes within the Agendas and Minutes series. Related materials may also be found in Series 1.4: Administrative, Funding and Fundraising; and Series 1.6: Administrative, General.
Includes preliminary text for early CCHC booklet, budget information, mortgage information for 65 Tilden Ave., and loan closing statement and other documents regarding 9 Cherry St. property.
Includes invoices and other insurance documents for individual properties owned by the CCHC.
Includes organizational financial information as well as budget information for individual properties. Also includes copy of IRS Exempt Status form, documents related to hiring of staff, correspondence, and insurance advertisement.
Includes organizational budget, balance, and expense information as well as budget information for individual properties. Also includes expense estimates for the solar house, list of project properties, and rehab supervisor's reports.
Includes 2000/2001 Independent Auditor's Report.
Series consists primarily of correspondence, information about funding programs, and proposal documents prepared for funding agencies. Includes correspondence to and from potential donors. Much of the documents in this subseries relate to funding programs sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Diocese of Providence Vicar of Commmunity Affairs, or the City of Newport Department of Community Affairs.
Organized chronologically, though some files span several years.
Additional materials may be found in the Series 1.2: Administrative, Correspondence and Series 1.6: Administrative, Publicity.
Copies of the proposal document prepared by the CCHC for HUD to designate the CCHC as a 237 counseling agency.
Proposal to the Urban Emergency Fund for "A Neighborhood Approach to Low-Income Housing Needs." Includes photos and diagrams of neighborhood examples.
CCHC financial information and a request to the Diocese of Providence for financial support. Also includes a newsclipping about the CCHCs work.
Budget form and organizational information for the Catholic Charity Fund.
Includes correspondence and documents related to CCHC publicity and support request from church members.
Correspondence.
Correspondence regarding grant funding from the Campaign for Human Development U.S. Catholic Conference.
Copies of application for funding for years 1974 and 1975 to the Campaign for Human Development U.S. Catholic Conference.
Copies of progress reports prepared for funding received from the Campaign for Human Development U.S. Catholic Conference.
Correspondence from the Diocese of Providence Community Affairs Vicar to Community Affairs Vicariate Programs. Also includes organizational pamphlets, hand-outs, constitution, by-laws, and organizational structure related to the Community Affiars Program.
Copy of a proposal to City of Newport for a "A Revolving Loan Fund for Broadway Business Rehabilitation."
Includes correspondence with City of Newport officials and newsprint clippings regarding community development of the West Broadway area. Also includes a copy of the City of Newport application to the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development Block Grant Program and a summary of the Broadway/West Broadway Project Area Committee meetings.
Proposals submitted to the City of Newport for community development of the West Broadway area.
Includes CCHC proposal to City of Newport for a Home Ownership Program for community development of the West Broadway area.
Includes documents and maps related to a CCHC subcontract with the City of Newport for funding secured from the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development Block Grant Program for development of the West Broadway area.
Summary notes for Workshop I and Workshop II. Items include: Community Development Plan spending, West Broadway and Lower Thames Street and survey response regarding the plan.
Correspondence from Thomas Weschler and from City of Newport Office of City Manager.
Proposal to Dept. of Housing and Urban Development to create "Home-ownership-plus-rental program"
Includes property financial information: Department of Community Affairs (DCA) loans, deposits made, DCA allowances, Invoice-voucher for DCA grant money; handwritten notes on "Program 117"; correspondence; notes on interview with Lou Treseman; and Basic Housing Inspection Quiz.
Correspondence from the Department of Community Affairs Housing Specialist.
Correspondence and a copy of the City Council resolution to contract with the CCHC to cover CCHC administrative costs for a period in 1979-1980.
This series includes a variety of organizational documents not directly related to the workings of the board or to the financial, funding, or publicity aspects of the CCHC. Includes copies of the letterhead and logo artwork.
Organized alphabetically by file name
Includes newspaper articles, correspondence, Point Section Neighborhood Improvement Committee minutes, VISTA Craft Cooperative proposal, financial information and receipts, Newport county financial statement, RI hospital and disease statistics, project recommendations, and 20 year annual report.
Documents containing information about Citizens United Renewal Enterprises, Inc. and its designation as a technical advisor to the CCHC.
Additional materials may be found in CCHC: Photos and Slides.
Copies of diplomas given to Rogers High School students that participated in CCC building projects.
Series contains newspaper articles and documents used for promotion of the activities of the CCHC. Includes documents that discuss the history and progress of the CCHC, invitations to groundbreakings of new construction, and declarations of Affordable Housing Week.
Organized alphabetically by file name
Additional materials may be found in Series 1.5: Administrative, General.
Newspaper articles and copies of newsprint articles on housing and about the CCHC.
Newspaper articles about CCHC activities and correspondence related to monetary donations.
Invitations to open houses and groundbreakings for properties on Cherry Street and Tilden Avenue.
Summaries of CCHC activities and a Neighborhood Walking Tour pamphlet. Includes large poster with speaking points.
Open house invitation, copy of newspaper articles, and documents related to CCHC speaking engagements.
Mostly architectural drawings and information related to house construction, rehabilitation, or costs
Divided into 2 series.
Series 2.1: Project Files is materials related to specific house projects and house plans; Series 2.2: Other Files has related documents.
Additional materials may be found in the files for the Solar House project. There are also related items in the Newport Community Organizations: East West Point Committee materials elsewhere in the Ade Bethune Papers.
Series contains mostly architectural sketches and plans with some supporting documents.
Organized by file name: alphabetically by project name, then by style name, and finally by dimension title. Some files were labeled with letters, and this labeling has been preserved (although the letter has been disregarded for arrangement purposes).
5 sheets of architectural plans.
Correspondence and architectural drawings. Includes approximately 45 sheets of architectural sketches and plans. Includes plans labeled "Proposed Residential Redevelopment Golden Hill Area.
Additional materials may be found in CCHC: Photos and Slides.
Additional materials may be found in CCHC: Photos and Slides.
Lot dimensions document; includes 2 lot development plan sheets.
Architectural drawings for 42 Burnside Ave. Includes 27 sheets of architectural plans for "Rose House--Burnside Ave" and 9 sheets from O'Connor Lumber Co and one sheet each for 41, 45, and 36 Burnside Avenue.
Additional materials may be found in CCHC: Photos and Slides.
Additional materials may be found in CCHC: Photos and Slides.
Correspondence. Includes 42 sheets of architectural and elevation/drainage plans.
Documents related to feasibility assessment.
Correspondence and architectural drawings.
Additional materials may be found in CCHC: Photos and Slides.
Architectural drawings, newspaper clippings, and project proposal and correspondence to EKOSE'A to request technical consultation for an "envelope style" passive solar heat house. Plans are for 55 Burnside Ave. Includes 17 architectural plans and sketches.
Additional materials may be found in CCHC: Photos and Slides.
Architectural drawings, correspondence, organizational documents, and property descriptive and rehabilitation information.
Additional materials may be found in CCHC: Photos and Slides.
correspondence.
Additional materials may be found in CCHC: Photos and Slides.
21 sheets of architectural sketches and plans and lot maps titled "Residential Redevelopment Golden Hill Area" and "Newport Redevelopment Historic Hill CCC."
Architectural drawings and realty information.
Additional materials may be found in CCHC: Photos and Slides.
Architectural drawings and correspondence.
Additional materials may be found in CCHC: Photos and Slides.
Contains 11 sheets of architectural sketches and lot plans. Also includes 2 paper board displays with text and photos. Road and plat plans and sketches are for Goat Island Connector proposal in conjunction with CCHC projects on Marsh St.
Correspondence and a newspaper article.
Architectural drawings, mortgage loan closing statement, correspondence.
Approximately 25 sheets of architectural plans and sketches.
Public Safety Inspection documents.
Additional materials may be found in CCHC: Photos and Slides.
Architectural plans & sketches and construction permit documents. Approximately 35 sheets.
Additional materials may be found in CCHC: Housing Projects: Project Files: Jackson House 24x34 4BR and CCHC: Photos and Slides.
Includes one architectural plan sheet.
Dept. of Housing and Urban Development rental documents. Includes approximately 30 sheets of architectural plans and sketches for "36 Thames St./Williams House" and "42nd Thames St."
Additional materials may be found in CCHC: Photos and Slides.
8 sheets of architectural plans.
1 sheet of property plan.
Project planning and financing documents.
Architectural drawings and cost information.
Includes 4 sheets of architectural plans.
Mostly misc. architectural drawings. Includes architectural drawings for properties near Guerney Court, Callendar Ave, Vicksburg Place, and Tilden Ave. Also contains drawings labeled "C.C.C. Earl H.S."
Includes 29 sheets of architectural sketches and plans.
Includes architectural descriptions and 62 sheets of architectural plans.
132 architectural plans.
Includes architectural descriptions and 5 sheets of architectural plans.
Includes 2 sheets of architectural plans titled "Wm. T. Sullivan Proposed Apartments" and a book of blueprint plans titled "Merchant Built Houses in Western Pennsylvania."
Includes architectural descriptions.
Includes architectural descriptions.
Includes architectural descriptions.
22 sheets of misc. or unlabeled architectural sketches on poster board and 29 sheets of unlabeled architectural plans.
Series includes architectural drawings and documents related to rental management and new property feasibilities.
Organized alphabetically by file name with file of miscellaneous projects at end.
CCHC housing project dimensions, construction product information brochures, architectural drawings, and bibliography.
Architectural drawings.
Misc. lot drawings including Guerney Court and Tilden Avenue.
Correspondence regarding project on Winwood Drive, Tiverton. Additional documents related to rental management and an affirmative action plan.
Partial list of properties 1978, feasibility reports, sales agreement copy, and architectural drawings.
Materials related to the creation of the first solar house constructed in Newport, R.I. Although this project was sponsored by the CCHC, most of the materials in this series were generated entirely by or for Bethune.
Includes administrative materials related to the planning and execution of the construction such as correspondence, financial and loan documents, funding documents related to a HUD grant, and publicity materials such as an open house booklet. Also includes architectural plans, diagrams, and other documents related to the house's construction. Research materials are included that relate to the use of solar energy technologies in architecture and to energy conservation and alternative energies.
Placed alphabetically into 6 series
Additional materials may be found in Series 1.1: Administrative, Board; Series 2.1: Housing Projects, Project Files: Envelope House; and Photos and Slides.
Series contains correspondence created in the process of information gathering and in general planning of the project. Also includes correspondence with solar component supply companies along with product literature and specifications from those companies.
Organized alphabetically by file name
Includes product information and diagrams.
Includes newsletters from the Housing Research and Development Center, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Includes product information and diagrams and glazing material sample.
Includes product information an diagrams.
Includes sketch of abutting property lots with owner names.
Includes newspaper article/photo.
Includes product information, heat system diagrams and cost calculations, and thermal calculations.
Includes comments on architectural features and drawings.
Correspondence about plans for an additioanl solar house and information on HUD Solar Energy Program: 2nd Cycle.
Includes product specifications, calculations,and contract.
Includes product information.
Series contains architectural plans and product information for the Solar House's solar heating and hot water system. The House uses solar collectors on south facing roof with additional insulation. Heat storage is provided by an insulated concrete rock bin. A forced air heating system with supplemental heat from oil-fired furnace is used. Water is preheated from a coil in the rockbin prior to entering a conventional water heater.
Organized alphabetically by file name
Approximately 110 sheets. Includes 3-dimensional model.
Photocopy of building permit, application for permit to build, site plan, approved architectual plans.
Correspondence with TROL-A-TEMP: Division of Trolex Corp., product information, and architectual plans for heating/cooling control system.
Heating and cooling system ducts architectural plans.
Itemized quantities, costs, and calculations.
Solar and heating system instructions and appliance information assembled into an Owner's Manual as part of the stipulations of the HUD grant funding for the Solar House.
Includes correspondence, product information, and invoices.
Includes correspondence with Peter Bethune and architectural plans.
Architectural plans that include phone numbers for Bob O'Donnell.
Includes architectural drawings of rock bin and heating system and photos of construction.
Architectural plans related to planning for a second CCHC sponsored solar house.
Series includes correspondence, CCHC memos, and other documents concerning the costs incurred in building the solar house. Also includes calculations of energy savings for the solar house.
Organized alphabetically by file name
Additional materials may be found in Series 3.2: Solar House, Design and Planning.
Includes check carbon copies, balance sheet calculations, real estate appraisal correspondence, and product receipts.
Includes financial analysis, expenditures, list of solar house accounts, and bank books.
Correspondence and calculations submitted to the CCHC treasurer.
Property selling agreement with Roger Sennott, fuel oil receipts, buyer/seller cost calculations.
Series contains documents related to the application and reports submitted to HUD for $5000 through its Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Program. Also includes correspondence and other documents concerning loans taken to fund the project.
Organized alphabetically by file name
Includes heating system diagrams and photos.
Correspondence and copies of promissory notes and checks.
Series contains materials used to publicize the solar house, including materials for its ground breaking and open house.
Organized alphabetically by file name
Includes preliminary artwork and copies of the booklet created for the dedication and open house on July 24, 1977.
Includes invitation, newspaper photos, and color and black and white photos from the ceremony.
Photo, newspaper clippings, and photocopy of chapter about the CCHC Solar House from "Solar Houses for a Cold Climate" by D. Carriere and F. Day.
Newspaper with article on solar house and correspondence from editor.
HUD publication: "Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Program: A Descriptive Summary of H.U.D. Solar Residential Demonstrations Cycle 1" includes information about the CCHC Solar House.
Participant names, addresses, and comments.
Series includes lists of resources for information on solar energy and solar energy products. Materials include information on alternative energies and energy conservation as well as information on incorporating solar technologies into architecture and design.
Organized alphabetically by file name with miscellaneous literature at the end
Product information and catalogs from several companies.
Newsletters and other informational publications from organization.
A variety of literature about solar heating and alternative energies. Includes some notes and calculations by Bethune.
Newspaper publications of the International Solarthermics Corporation.
Includes pamphlets, booklets and other publications governmental and non-governmental organizations.
Books about energy conservation, alternative energies,and alternative energy construction.
Materials related to the construction, renovation, or administration of CCHC sponsored projects, each of which was incorporated with its own governing board. Includes correspondence, board meeting minutes and agendas, publicity materials, financing documents, reports, architectural drawings, newspaper articles, a resident literary magazines, and resident newsletters .
Placed into 2 series
Series contains materials related to the renovation of a City of Newport Navy YMCA building into small apartments, single occupancy rooms, improved emergency shelter, and office space for social service agencies. Also includes copies of In the Heart of the City literary magazine, materials related to its design, and a resident newsletter. Magazine contains prose, poetry, and illustrations produced by the residents of 50 Washington Square. Bethune supervised the layout and illustrations of the magazine.
Organized alphabetically by file name
Additional materials may be found in the Photos and Slides boxes.
Materials related to planning of the project including a feasibility report, copies of newspaper articles, architectural plans, and ground breaking program document.
correspondence, newspaper articles and photos and copies of resident literary work.
Published copies of the magazine. One issue was produced per year.
Copies of works included in the 1990 and 1991 magazines and mock-ups of those magazines.
Original illustrations from resident contributors.
Resident Newsletter titled "What's Up at Fifty Washington Square?"
Organized alphabetically by corporation name
July 1995 operating report for 70 development for the elderly in Portsmouth, RI.
Additional materials may be found in CCHC: Photos and Slides.
Materials related to the financing of rehabilitation and construction of family rental units.
Project summary document for 50 unit, low-income, assisted living facility for the elderly in Middletown, RI, in partnership with Forest Farm Health Care Centre, Inc.
Additional materials may be found in CCHC: Photos and Slides.
Materials related to the establishment and management of a 34 unit housing development in the City of Newport, RI for elderly with low to moderate incomes. Includes meeting minutes and agendas, financial reports 1986 & 1987, correspondence, management plan and agreement, monthly and annual reports, and financing documents and proposals.
Materials related to the establishment of a land trust in cooperation with the goals and purpose of the CCHC. Includes a copy of the Newport Community Land Trust by-laws, article of incorporation, a sales agreement, materials from a workshop conducted by ICE (Institute for Community Economics, Inc., and correspondence.
Materials related to the management of a project that consisted of 12 units of elderly housing in Jamestown, RI. Board members were composed of members from the CCHC and from the Jamestown Housing Authority. Includes list of board members, organizational by-laws, memos, correspondence, financial documents, meeting agenda and minutes, management agreement and ground lease with Jamestown Housing Authority, architectural plans, publicity materials, and photos.
Additional materials may be found in CCHC: Photos and Slides.
Flyer information for development of 26 cooperative duplex family units in Middletown, RI.
Additional materials may be found in CCHC: Photos and Slides.
Materials related to the development and management of a 50 unit development for the elderly in Middletown, RI. Building is dedicated to the memory of Jean West, CCHC Board Member. Includes memos, publicity materials, organizational by-laws, meeting minutes and agendas, architectural plans, correspondence, newspaper articles, operational report, and HUD loan application.
Additional materials may be found in CCHC: Photos and Slides.
Primarily publications from organizations related to affordable housing issues and also architecturally related materials used in researching and planning for CCHC activities and projects. Includes informational documents, copies of newspaper and journal articles, public law text, and product brochures.
Grouped into two series
Additional materials may be found in the Series 1: Administrative series.
Series contains materials published by other organizations that relate to the CCHC affordable housing objectives.
Organized alphabetically with miscellaneous booklets, pamphlets, and other materials at the end.
Examples of annual reports from other organizations.
Includes Broadway, West Broadway, Washington Square neighborhood report from the RI Historical Preservation Commission and project area map. Map highlights commercial and residential buildings and their movement based upon planned road changes.
Informational documents related to training conducted by the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations – Department of Community Affairs (DCA). Includes certificates of completion given to Bethune.
Includes documents created by the Rhode Island Statewide Planning Program, Rural Housing Alliance (Washington, DC), State of Rhode Island Commission Against Discrimination, The Shalan Foundation, New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal, Community Housing Resource Board of Newport County, Urban Land Institute (Washington, DC), Rhode Island Association of Realtors, New England Non-Profit Housing Development Corp. (Concord, NH), and copies of newspaper and periodical articles, public laws and other materials.
Series contains materials that may have been used in architectural planning for housing projects.
Organized alphabetically by file name with misc. booklets and pamphlets at the end.
Product brochure.
8 sheets of architectural plans.
Correspondence, product brochure, architectural drawings. Includes 18 architectural plans from Magnolia Homes of Virginia.
floor plan examples.
Modular building proposal booklet and architectural sketches and notes.
Includes photos, slides, and negatives; Materials are mostly of housing project properties. Also contains images of board members and people that benefitted from CCHC housing programs.
A sizable portion of the materials show images of the Solar House.
Organized alphabetically by project/street name, with board member photos at the beginning and unlabeled photos at the end.