Five Points House of Industry: Christmas Caroling

Event Information

Venue(s):
Five Points House of Industry

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
18 January 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Dec 1864, 11:30 AM

Program Details



Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Sun, 26 December 1864.

Christmas at the five points House of Industry, 158 Worth street.—The kind church which has for so many years provided a Feast and Tree and Christmas for the children at the House of Industry, repeat it this year on Monday, at 112 A.M.  There will be services in the new Chapel, consisting in part of Christmas Carols, physical exercises, with short addresses [sic]. At 2 o’clock the children will dine in the large hall, where there will be ample room for a thousand spectators. Immediately after dinner the gifts will be distributed from the Tree.”