Miracle House records
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Abstract
This collection contains material from the records of Miracle House, a charity that provided housing, meals, and support services to patients and their caregivers traveling to New York City for medical treatment. The collection consists primarily of records related to fundraising, publicity, and routine business operations.
Biographical / Historical
Miracle House was founded in 1990 in response to the AIDS crisis to provide affordable temporary housing, free meals and support services to patients and caregivers of people living with AIDS in New York City. In 1997, Miracle House expanded its services to include cancer patients, and in 2005, began to include patients and their caregivers traveling to New York City for any medically related treatment options, procedures, or consultations. Starting with one studio apartment on Manhattan's upper west side, by 2004 Miracle House was operating five apartments, providing a total capacity of 5,475 rooms per year. Citing difficulties with rising costs of the New York City rental market as well as increasing administrative costs, Miracle House ceased operation in 2014.
Arrangement
The collection is organized in 2 series:
Series I. Digital Files
Series II. Other Records
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of records related to fundraising, publicity, and routine business operations such as financial records, annual reports, budgets, and Board meeting minutes. There is also documentation about clinical trials taking place in New York City, client reports and testimonials, newsletters, and shopping lists for the various apartments. There are numerous event files such as photos, flyers, press releases, mailers, sponsor forms, spreadsheets of expenses, letters to donors and other marketing materials.
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Access Restrictions
Open to qualified researchers.
Use Restrictions
Taking images of documents from the library collections for reference purposes by using hand-held cameras and in accordance with the library's photography guidelines is encouraged. As an alternative, patrons may request up to 20 images per day from staff. Application to use images from this collection for publication should be made in writing to: Department of Rights and Reproductions, The New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024-5194, rightsandrepro@nyhistory.org. Phone: (212) 873-3400 ext. 282.
Copyrights and other proprietary rights may subsist in individuals and entities other than the New-York Historical Society, in which case the patron is responsible for securing permission from those parties. For fuller information about rights and reproductions from N-YHS visit: https://www.nyhistory.org/about/rights-reproductions
Some formats, such as CDs, floppy disks, and certain digital files, may not be accessible due to file corruption or because the library does not have the equipment or proprietary software necessary to make the information they contain accessible. A full manifest of the individual files comprising the series is available from the reference librarian on request.
Preferred Citation
The collection should be cited as: Miracle House records, MS 3098, New-York Historical Society.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Miracle House, 2014.
About this Guide
Processing Information
Processed in 2021 by digital archivist Margo Padilla and archivist Larry Weimer.