Why is the Guild Important?

The first neighborhood guild association began when Ms. Anna B. Keagle, both a high school and Sunday School teacher in the Flytown neighborhood, discovered all of her 8-10 year old charges were in jail one Sunday.

In November of 1898, she and fourteen others became neighborhood activists and rented half of a brick double on West Goodale Street. By June 1899 they outgrew the house. In 1900 the Association set out to build a commodious settlement house.