Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Stevens House records
- Dates:
- 1949-1993
- Creators:
- Stevens House
- Abstract:
- Record Series 504 contains the administrative and financial records of Stevens House, a cooperative residence that offered affordable housing for women, particularly women of color, studying at UCLA. Materials include correspondence, Stevens House Board and student council meeting minutes, financial records, resident applications and contracts; and other materials documenting the daily operations and activities of the House, its House Directors, and its residents.
- Extent:
- 4 Linear Feet (3 cartons, 2 boxes, 1 half box)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Stevens House records (University Archives Record Series 504). UCLA Library Special Collections, University Archives, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Record Series 504 contains administrative records, such as correspondence, Stevens Board and student council meeting minutes, and the House Director's notebooks; resident applications and contracts; financial records; publications; and other materials documenting the daily operations and activities of the house and its residents.
- Biographical / historical:
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Stevens House was founded in 1948 as a low-cost cooperative residence for UCLA undergraduate women and dedicated to the memory of Bishop William Bertrand Stevens, the head of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles from 1928 to 1947. It was an undertaking of the Intercultural Committee of the University Religious Conference at UCLA, where Bishop Stevens served as President. Its purpose was to provide housing to women, particularly women of color, who could not find campus housing elsewhere. It was one of the first institutions in Los Angeles to practice integration in education.
The first Stevens House was located at 1411 South Westgate Avenue in Los Angeles. The UCLA University Religious Conference operated the house until 1958; in 1959, it sold the property to the non-profit Stevens House Corporation who operated the house through its Board of Directors. In 1959, the house moved to 820 Levering Avenue in Westwood. In 1972, it relocated to 638 Landfair Avenue. In 1992, the Board voted to close Stevens House and donated the profits from its sale to the UCLA Foundation to establish the Stevens House Scholarship.
- Acquisition information:
- Transferred by Stevens House, 1993.
- Processing information:
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Processed by University Archives staff, Vivian Wong, 1997; reprocessed by Lori Dedeyan, 2019.
Reprocessing included enhancing description; further arrangement; and deaccessioning of some financial documents, such as checks and petty cash receipts, in order to comply with the UC Records Retention Schedule.
Record Series 504 includes the contents of Record Series 505 (Stevens House Financial Records), which was merged into this record series in October 2019.
- Arrangement:
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Arranged in the following series:
- Series 1. Administrative records and publications
- Series 2. Financial records
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2019-12-06 13:19:14 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Boxes 4-6 of this collection are closed due to the presence of student records, in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright to portions of this collection has been assigned to the UCLA Library Special Collections. The library can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. Commercial use may require additional rights that must be determined and obtained by the researcher. All requests for copyright permission to publish must be submitted in writing to Library Special Collections. Credit shall be given as follows: The Regents of the University of California on behalf of the UCLA Library Special Collections.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Stevens House records (University Archives Record Series 504). UCLA Library Special Collections, University Archives, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- 310-825-4988