DOROTHY DAY-CATHOLIC WORKER COLLECTION
ST. LOUIS CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNITY RECORDS, 1977-2020
Historical Note
The St. Louis Catholic Worker dates from 1977 with the opening of a house of hospitality for women and children in a former convent, named Karen
House for its first guest. Cass House, which ran a soupline and accommodated men and women and children
(in separate locations) in the historic Clemens Mansion, followed the next year; it closed in 1988. Other outgrowths of the SLCW
included the Dorothy Day Co-Housing Community (2000-2005) and Kabat House (2001-2018).The community's newsletter,
The Roundtable, was published from 1979 to 2020, the year that Karen House closed.
Scope and Content
The St. Louis Catholic Worker Community Records, 1977-2020 (1.8 cubic feet), documents the services of Cass House and Karen
House. House logs, minutes of meetings, and other confidential discussions of community members and guests are restricted.
The logs and minutes (which donotrelate, for the most part, to policy matters) have been systematically sampled. For the SLCW's
website, click here. For earlier versions of this site, which Marquette began capturing in 2011, click here.
| W-24 | - | - | Cass House |
| W-24 | 1 | 1 | Community Meeting Minutes, 1979-1982 (sampled) |
| W-24 | 1 | 2 | House Logs, 1981-1986 (sampled) |
| W-24 | 1 | 3 | Men's Meeting Minutes, 1981 |
| W-24 | 1 | 4 | Staff Meetings, 1981-1986 (sampled) |
| W-24 | 1 | 5 | Women's Meeting Minutes, 1980-1982 |
| W-24 | 1 | 6 | Dorothy Day Co-Housing Community, ca 2000-2004 |
| W-24 | 1 | 7-8 | General Correspondence, 1977-2005, 2013, undated |
| W-24 | 1 | 9 | House Rules, 1980, undated |
| W-24 | 1 | 10 | Joint Meeting Minutes, 1979-1984, 1987, undated |
| W-24 | 1 | - | Karen House |
| W-24 | 1 | 11 | Circulars, 1977-1978, 1980, 1985 |
| W-24 | 3 | - | Community Meeting Minutes, 198-2020 (sampled) (Restricted) |
| Series | Box | Folder | Folder Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| W-24 | 4 | 1 | Correspondence concerning Guests, 1982-1984 (Restricted) |
| W-24 | 2 | 1 | Dutcher, Mary, 1983-1990 |
| W-24 | 2 | 2 | House Instructions and Rules, ca. 1982, undated |
| W-24 | 4 | - | House Logs, 1982-2007 (sampled) (Restricted) |
| W-24 | 2 | 3 | Miscellaneous Records, 1979, 1987, undated |
| W-24 | 2 | 4 | Peace Demonstrations, 1979-1984, 1990, undated |
| W-24 | 2 | 5 | Publicity, 1977-2015, undated |
| W-24 | 2 | 6 | St. Liborius Church Building, 2012 |
| W-24 | 2 | 7 | War Tax Resistance, 1982-1988 |
| W-24 | - | - | Publications (CONNECT to online) |
| W-24 | 5 | 1 | Newsletter, 1978 |
| W-24 | 5 | 2-8 | The Round Table, 1979-1997 |
| W-24 | 6 | - | The Round Table, 1998-2020 |
