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Australia's first settlement activity was begun by the University of Sydney Women's Society. The Society was instigated by Helen Phillips when she was the first tutor of women students at the University of Sydney in 1891–1892. Before she took up that position, Phillips visited Cambridge and Oxford Universities in England to find out how they ...
Chicago Photographed from Ray Knabenshue's Dirigible Air Ship, 1914. Tenement housing in Chicago was established in the late 19th and into the early 20th centuries. [1] A majority of tenement complexes in Chicago were constructed in the interest of using land space and boosting the economy.
Living: Late 19th-century town Sharlot Hall Museum: Prescott: Arizona: Open-air: Includes special living history programs for mid-1860s Ozark Folk Center: Mountain View: Arkansas: Living: State park with traditional crafts and music Columbia State Historic Park: Columbia: California: Living: Mid-to-late 19th-century Gold Rush town Empire Mine ...
Addams followed the example of Toynbee Hall, which was founded in 1884 in the East End of London as a center for social reform. She described Toynbee Hall as "a community of university men" who, while living there, held their recreational clubs and social gatherings at the settlement house among the poor people and in the same style they would in their own circle. [10]
Home Insurance Building Field Museum in Chicago. 1885: Home Insurance Building building was the first skyscraper that stood in Chicago from 1885 to 1931. Originally ten stories and 138 ft (42.1 m) tall, it was designed by William Le Baron Jenney in 1884 [18] [19] Two floors were added in 1891, bringing its now finished height to 180 feet (54.9 ...
Miller, Donald L. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (1997), popular epic; excerpt and text search; Miller, Ross. American Apocalypse: The Great Fire and the Myth of Chicago. 1990. 287 pp. Miller, Ross. The Great Chicago Fire (2000); 1st ed was American Apocalypse: The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Chicago ...
The Queen of England may reside in Buckingham Palace but Her Majesty now also has a home in Chicago. Crain's Chicago Business reports Queen Elizabeth II purchased a 26th floor condominium at ...
Operated by the Waukegan Historical Society in the late 19th-century period Haines House: Homepage: Weber House and Garden: Streator: LaSalle: Northern Illinois: Historic house: 18th-century-style storybook house of Ted Weber: Homepage: Weld House Museum: Nauvoo: Hancock: Central: Local history: Operated by the Nauvoo Historical Society, mid ...