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Hull House, Chicago. Settlement and community houses in the United States were a vital part of the settlement movement, a progressive social movement that began in the mid-19th century in London with the intention of improving the quality of life in poor urban areas through education initiatives, food and shelter provisions, and assimilation and naturalization assistance.
International Style 1958 building that was the first in the city built to house multiple physicians' practices; considered the most advanced such medical center in the country at the time 65: Delaware Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church: Delaware Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church: November 15, 2003 : 339 Delaware Ave.
Historic house built about 1800. 6: Abraham Best House: Abraham Best House: July 14, 2011 : 113 Vischer Ferry Rd. Vischer Ferry: Federal style house, built ca. 1815. 7: Broadway Historic District: Broadway Historic District
2-story Queen Anne-style house built 1886 or '87, with fish-scale shingles covering the second story and Stick style decoration in the gable ends. Slaymaker was a carpenter for Beloit Iron works, and he may have built the house. [247] [248] 120: Samuel Smiley House: Samuel Smiley House: October 21, 1982 : SE of Orfordville on WI 213
The Turner-Dodge House is now a museum and historical center dedicated to Lansing's early pioneers. The house sits in the Classical Revival -styled Turner-Dodge Mansion, built in 1858 for James and Marion Turner, and later expanded by their daughter Abigail Turner-Dodge and her husband Frank Dodge at the turn of the century.
In this photo of the Dorfield Farm house, the oldest portion of the house is on the right, with additions extending to the left. The Early Cape houses of Wells, Maine, are a collection of 18th-century Cape style houses in or near the town of Wells, Maine. The town has a concentration of these houses that is unusual in the state of Maine. In the ...
The Abraham Rittenhouse House (c. 1720) with a c. 1860 addition on the left. [7] Elfreth's Alley: Philadelphia, Old City: 1720–1830 Houses Claimed to be the nation's oldest residential street; two rows of Federal and Georgian brick houses built between 1720 and 1830, with a total of 32 extant houses [8] Wyck House: Philadelphia, Germantown
In 1953 the house was bought by Willie and B. Fostoria Jones, African Americans involved in a number of black-owned businesses in Bronzeville, and the basement bar became a local social center. Miss Eva Hill bought the house in 1967. [123] [124] 85: Joseph B. Kalvelage House: Joseph B. Kalvelage House: May 23, 1978 : 2432 W. Kilbourn Ave.