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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.
University Settlement House, Manhattan. The movement spread to the United States in the late 1880s, with the opening of the Neighborhood Guild in New York City's Lower East Side in 1886, and the most famous settlement house in the United States, Hull-House (1889), was founded soon after by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr in Chicago. By 1887, there ...
Location of Indiana County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register ...
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 ...
In 1992, the College Hill Residential Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of the extensive collection of stately homes and mansions that were constructed between 1830 and 1940, including the McKelvy House that was designed in 1888 by the renowned firm of McKim, Mead and White. The push for ...
Notable buildings include the William McIlwaine House and Store (1820–1829), the Dr. James Crawford House (1830–1839), Dr. McFarland's Drug Store and Office (1840), the Saltsburg Hotel (1870s), the Western Pennsylvania Railroad Station (1864), the Saltsburg Presbyterian Church (1874), the Sons of Zebedee Evangelical Lutheran Church (1878 ...
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.
He was "Born in Montgomery Township, Indiana County, September 7, 1871, the son of John W. and Adah S. (Hiddlesen) Clark; educated in public schools; Dickinson Seminary (Williamsport); Germantown Academy; Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie; partner in lumber business at Glen Campbell, Pa.; organizer and board member, First National Bank ...