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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.
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.
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 ...
Hull House, the first settlement house in Chicago. This is a list of settlement houses in Chicago.. Settlement houses, which reached their peak popularity in the early 20th century, were marked by a residential approach to social work: the social workers ("residents") would live in the settlement house, and thus be a part of the same communities as the people they served.
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 ...
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.
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