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{{Infobox company
| name             = East End Dwellings Company
| type             = [[Public Company]]
| foundation       = [[Whitechapel]], [[London]], [[United Kingdom]] ({{Start date|1882}})
| founder          = [[Samuel Augustus Barnett|Samuel Barnett]]
| location_city    = London
| area_served      = [[London Borough of Tower Hamlets]]
| key_people       = Samuel Barnett, [[Beatrice Potter]] (estate manager), [[Ella Pycroft]] (estate manager), [[Maurice Eden Paul]]
| industry         = Housing
| products         = [[Model dwellings]]
}}
The '''East End Dwellings Company''' was a [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] [[philanthropic]] [[model dwellings company]], operating in the [[East End of London]] in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The company was founded in principle in 1882 by, among others, [[Samuel Augustus Barnett]], vicar of St Jude's Church, [[Whitechapel]];<ref>Mrs. H. O. Barnett, ''Canon Barnett, His Life, Work and Friends, 1918, vol. i'', pp. 129–40</ref><ref>[https://civitas.org.uk/pdf/rr3.pdf Whelan, R. (ed.) (1998) ''Octavia Hill and the Social Housing Debate: Essays and Letters by Octavia Hill'', London: Civitas]</ref> it was finally incorporated in 1884.<ref>O'Day, p.151</ref><ref>Connor and Critchley</ref>
It aimed to "house the very poor while realizing some profit",<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22752 ''Bethnal Green: Building and Social Conditions from 1876 to 1914', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green'' (1998), pp. 126-132]. Date accessed: 24 March 2011</ref> "their particular purpose being to erect blocks of dwellings, to be let by the room, so that the poorest class of laborers could be accommodated".<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50176 'The Fossan (Keate and Tonge) estate', Survey of London: volume 27: Spitalfields and Mile End New Town (1957), pp. 245-251]. Date accessed: 24 March 2011</ref> Unlike many of the model dwellings companies, the EEDC offered accommodation to the casual poor and day laborers.<ref>O'Day, p.157</ref>
The company's first venture was Katharine Buildings in [[Aldgate]], followed by several schemes in [[Bethnal Green]], [[London]]. They went on to build around the East End. Along the principles of [[Octavia Hill]]'s schemes, the company used female rent collectors, including [[Beatrice Potter]] (later Webb), one of the founders of the [[London School of Economics & Political Science]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fathom.com/course/21701744/session3.html |title=Susannah Morris, Social Policy: From the Victorians to the Present Day |access-date=2011-03-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510143932/http://fathom.com/course/21701744/session3.html |archive-date=2012-05-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[Ella Pycroft]], who ran the Buildings alongside [[Maurice Eden Paul]].<ref>Mackenzie, N. (ed.) ''The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb: Volume 1, Apprenticeships 1873-1892'', p.46-7</ref>
==Buildings==
[[Image:Stepney Green, Dunstan Houses, E1 - geograph.org.uk - 786501.jpg |thumb|Dunstan Houses, Stepney Green, London E1, built by the East End Dwellings Company in 1899]]
*[[Katharine Buildings]] - Cartwright Street, Aldgate<ref>O'Day, Rosemary (2004). Caring or controlling? The East End of London in the 1880s and 1890s. In: Emsley, Clive; Johnson, Eric and Spierenburg, Pieter eds. ''Social control in Europe: Volume 2, 1800-2000''. Columbus, Ohio, USA: Ohio State University Press, pp. 149–166.</ref><ref>[http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=5757&inst_id=1&nv1=search&nv2= AIM25 WEBB, Beatrice, 1858-1943: Aldgate papers]</ref>
*[[Museum House]] - Green Street, Bethnal Green (1888)
*Tankerton Street, [[Kings Cross, London|King's Cross]] (1892)
*[[Meadows Dwellings]] - Mansford Street (1894)
*[[Ravenscroft Dwellings]] - [[Columbia Road Market|Columbia Road]] (1897)
*[[Dunstan Houses]] - [[Stepney Green]] (1899)
*[[Whidborne Buildings]] - Tonbridge Street, Kings Cross (1890s)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kxrlg.org.uk/history/timeline.pdf |title=Kings Cross Railway Lands Group |access-date=2011-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425062941/http://www.kxrlg.org.uk/history/timeline.pdf |archive-date=2012-04-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[Mendip Houses]] - Kirkwall Place, Bethnal Green (1900)<ref name=TheBuilder>{{cite journal | url=https://archive.org/details/sim_building-uk_1900-02-03_78_2974/page/120/mode/2up?q=%22Mendip+Houses%22 | author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=3 February 1900 |title=The East End Dwellings Company |journal=The Builder |volume=78 |issue=2974 |pages=120 |doi= |access-date=2022-12-01}}</ref>
*[[Shepton Houses]] (1900)<ref name=TheBuilder />
*[[Merceron Houses]] (1901)
*[[Montfort House]] (1901)
*[[Gretton Houses]] (1901)
*[[Thornhill Houses]] - [[Barnsbury]] (1902)<ref>[http://www.thtara.org/ Thornhill Houses Tenants and Residents Association]</ref>
*[[Evesham House]] - [[Old Ford]] (1905)
*[[Globe Road/Cyprus Street block]] - [[Bethnal Green]] (1906)
==See also==
*[[List of existing model dwellings]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==Further reading==
*Connor, JE and Critchley, BJ (1984) ''The Red Cliffs of Stepney: History of Buildings erected by the East End Dwellings Co. 1885-1949'', Connor and Butler
*O'Day, Rosemary (2004). [https://books.google.com/books?id=R1rhlssA7joC&dq=+Caring+or+controlling%3F+The+East+End+of+London+in+the+1880s+and+1890s+R+O%27Day&pg=PA149 Caring or controlling? The East End of London in the 1880s and 1890s]. In: Emsley, Clive; Johnson, Eric and Spierenburg, Pieter eds. ''Social control in Europe: Volume 2, 1800-2000''. Columbus, Ohio, USA: Ohio State University Press, pp.&nbsp;149–166.
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