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The contributing site is Memorial Park, established as a burial ground in the early 19th century. Located in the district and listed separately are the Silas M. Clark House, James Mitchell House, Old Indiana County Courthouse, Indiana Borough 1912 Municipal Building, Indiana Armory, and Old Indiana County Jail and Sheriff's Office. [2]
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.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Pennsylvania on the National Register of Historic Places.These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Location of Fayette County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register ...
In 2006, Donna Schwartzbauer spent $15,000 on what she thought was a nice plot of land in Ross Township, Pennsylvania, just outside of Pittsburgh.She decided to build a house on it and make it her ...
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 ...
Ellen Gates Starr, c. 1890. Ellen Gates Starr was born on March 19, 1859, in Laona, Illinois, US, to Caleb Allen Starr and Susan Gates (née Child).. From 1877 to 1878, Starr attended the Rockford Female Seminary, where she first met Jane Addams.
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.