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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.
Hull House offered an alternative location where women could debate, reflect, ponder and make sense of urban life through the prism of feminine experience. According to Maurice Hamington [38] Hull House was an incubator of ideas where feminist pragmatism was jump started. The Hull House philosophy, contrasted sharply with the approach of Plato.
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 ...
Hull-House Kilns was established as part of the Chicago settlement house, Hull House. The program was developed by the potter Myrtle Merritt French (1886-1970). [3] She began teaching pottery at Hull House in 1924. The classes were first attended by Mexican immigrants in Chicago, and then by African Americans. [1] A notable potter working at ...
The root of mess is the Old French mes, "portion of food" (cf. modern French mets), drawn from the Latin verb mittere, meaning "to send" and "to put" (cf. modern French mettre), the original sense being "a course of a meal put on the table"; cfr. also the modern Italian portata with the same meaning, past participle of portare, to bring.
Houses are increasingly being designated as historic in the United States as a way to resuscitate neighbourhoods and increase the economic health of surrounding urban areas. [3] Designating a house as historic tends to increase the value of the house as well as others in the same neighbourhood.
Hofbrau is an American cafeteria-style restaurant concept, similar to a carvery.The name is derived from the German term Hofbräu, which originally referred to a brewery with historical ties to a royal court.