[QUOTE=ChrisGeorge;64504]Hi Philip
George Peabody (1795-1869), who provided the funding for Victoria Square Dwellings in Liverpool as well as Peabody Buildings in London's East End, was an American-born philanthropist who got his start as a dry goods merchant here in Baltimore. Below is his statue near the Peabody Library in Mount Vernon, Baltimore. The library by the way has cast iron floors above an open area much like Liverpool's late lamented Sailor's Home. Peabody received an elaborate funeral in Westminster Abbey but is not buried there. With the approval of the Queen, Peabody was given a temporary burial in the Abbey but as per his will he is buried in the town where he grew up, Danvers, Massachusetts, which was renamed Peabody in his honor.
Chris
Chris.
Peabody had nothing to do with Victoria Square in Liverpool.
The article I quoted says that Liverpool Corporation took the idea from Peabody.
Victoria Square (1891, I think) was only the second municipal dwellings in Liverpool, following St Martins Cottages way back in the 1860s (The first Municipal dwellings in the country).
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Here's part of the article I quoted above:
"In the Liverpool experiment, the work has been prosecuted by the municipal government. In the Peabody dwellings, it has, of course, been the work of an individual, carried on by a board of high-minded, honorable, and philanthropic gentlemen."
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