page_title: List of existing model dwellings
section_title: Peabody Trust
hierarchical_section_title: List of existing model dwellings / Peabody Trust
caption_attribution_description: The "Peabody" dwellings for the industrious poor, in Commercial Street, Spitalfields, London. A wood-engraving published in the Illustrated London News, July 1863 (shortly before the building was opened). Architect: H. A. Darbishire. Engraver unknown. Illustrated London News, 18 July 1863, p. 73. This is a photo of listed building number 1357541. General Collections Keywords: Poverty
context_page_description: Model Dwellings were buildings or estates constructed, mostly during the Victorian era, along philanthropic lines to provide decent living accommodation for the working class. They were typically erected by private model dwellings companies and usually with the aim of making a return on investment hence the description of the movement as "five per cent philanthropy." As such they were forerunners of modern-day municipal housing.
  This is a list of still-standing model dwellings, organised by builder. Most of these companies are now defunct; a few, such as the Peabody Trust are still operating and building new accommodation, and others have been subsumed by larger firms. This list covers urban development on the principal of "five per cent philanthropy"; for communities built to house workers for a particular trade or employer, see model village or company town.
context_section_description: The Peabody Trust was set up following a huge gift for the poor of London from the banker George Peabody in 1862. It became one of the largest providers of model housing for the working classes.
caption: The first block of Peabody dwellings in Commercial Street, Spitalfields. A wood-engraving published in the Illustrated London News in 1863, shortly before the building opened.
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