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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.
Jane Addams and Hull House were pioneers of social reform in the United States. Addams’ efforts, both through Hull House and independently, laid groundwork for women’s rights, children’s rights, workers’ rights, and education still felt today.
Hull House, one of the first social settlements in North America. It was founded in Chicago in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr to aid needy immigrants. It became a complex, containing a gymnasium, social and cooperative clubs, shops, housing for children, and playgrounds.
Jane Addams (1860-1935) was a peace activist and a leader of the settlement house movement in America. As one of the most distinguished of the first generation of college-educated women, she...
Jane Addams, American social reformer and pacifist, cowinner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1931. She is best known as a cofounder (with Ellen Gates Starr) of Hull House in Chicago, one of the first social settlements in North America, which was established to aid needy immigrants.
Hull House was a Settlement House founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in Chicago. It served as a community center for immigrants and the urban poor, providing educational, recreational, and social services.
The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago serves as a dynamic memorial to social reformer Jane Addams, America’s first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The museum is in two of the original settlement house buildings—the Hull Home, a National Historic Landmark, and the Residents' Dining Hall.
In 1889, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr established Hull-House in Chicago, the first settlement house in the United States. By the late 1800s, Chicago had begun its transformation into the manufacturing hub of the United States.
A dynamic resource for people with an interest in the history of social reform, the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum offers exhibitions and programs that aim to inspire action. We serve to educate a diverse range of visitors, including young learners, the UIC community, and civic-minded people in Chicago and beyond.
From Hull-House, where she lived and worked until her death in 1935, Jane Addams fought for peace during war-time, advocated for women’s right to vote, and supported safety, education, and play for all, both in her neighborhood and around the world.