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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. By 1911, Hull House had expanded to 13 buildings.
The contributions of Jane Addams and other Hull House residents were buried in history. [146] Mary Jo Deegan, in her 1988 book Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892–1918 was the first person to recover Addams' influence on sociology. [147] Deegan's work has led to recognition of Addams's place in sociology.
Park sign, 2023. Location. Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Coordinates. 41°53′33″N 87°36′46″W / 41.89250°N 87.61278°W / 41.89250; -87.61278. Jane Addams Memorial Park is a public park in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. Located near Navy Pier, the park is named after Jane Addams, [1] the first woman to be awarded the ...
February 10, 1940. (1940-02-10) (aged 80) Suffern, New York, U.S. Education. Rockford Female Seminary. Ellen Gates Starr (March 19, 1859 – February 10, 1940) was an American social reformer and activist. [1] With Jane Addams, she founded Chicago's Hull House, an adult education center, in 1889; the settlement house expanded to 13 buildings in ...
The most famous settlement house in the United States is Chicago's Hull House, founded by Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 after Addams visited Toynbee Hall within the previous two years. Hull House, unlike the charity and welfare efforts which preceded it, was not a religious-based organization.
ABLA Homes (Jane Addams Homes, Robert Brooks Homes, Loomis Courts, and Grace Abbott Homes) was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing development that comprised four separate public housing projects on the Near-West Side of Chicago, Illinois. The name "ABLA" was an acronym for the names of the four different housing developments that ...
Jane Addams' burial site is located on a family plot which also contains the graves of her father, John Huy Addams, and several other family members. Addams, a social activist famous for her affiliation with Hull House, died of cancer in 1935. Her funeral was held on the courtyard of the Hull House and her body then transported for burial in ...
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.