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This district encompasses 118 contributing buildings, one contributing site, one contributing structure, and fifteen contributing objects that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Saltsburg, including notable examples of buildings that were designed in the Federal and Late Victorian styles.
Hull House was a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Hull House, named after the original house's first owner Charles Jerald Hull, opened to serve recently arrived European immigrants.
University Settlement House, Manhattan. The movement spread to the United States in the late 1880s, with the opening of the Neighborhood Guild in New York City's Lower East Side in 1886, and the most famous settlement house in the United States, Hull-House (1889), was founded soon after by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr in Chicago. By 1887, there ...
Helen Culver (1832–1925) was a successful real estate developer and philanthropist. She owned Hull House and rented it to Jane Addams, before later giving the property to Addams along with hundreds of thousands of dollars of donations, contributing substantially to founding the comprehensive settlement house movement in the United States.
Source Addams: Twenty Years at Hull House (1910), p.128 A Doorway in Hull House Court. Source Addams: Twenty Years at Hull House (1910), p.149 Jane Addams, 1915. In 1889 [43] Addams and her college friend and paramour Ellen Gates Starr [44] co-founded Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago. The run-down mansion had been built by Charles Hull ...
Indiana County was an active hub of the Underground Railroad. [7] At least 90 county residents are known to have been conductors or agents, guiding fugitive slaves between hiding places on their way to freedom in Canada. [10] In the 21st century, Indiana County comprises the Indiana, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Frederick Hanger House; Otway Henderson House; Herman Behr Mansion; Highroyd, Annandale; The Historic New Orleans Collection; Holsten Family Farmstead; Hood-Strickland House; Horner–Hyde House; House at 25 Avon Street; House at 54 Spring Street; Charles C. Hovey House and Strong Leather Company Mill; Horatio N. Hovey House; Howe-Waffle House ...
The Sanborn maps themselves are large-scale lithographed street plans at a scale of 50 feet to one inch (1:600) on 21 by 25 inches (53 by 64 cm) sheets of paper. The maps were published in volumes, bound and then updated until the subsequent volume was produced.