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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.
The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in the United Kingdom and the United States. Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social connection. Its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban ...
The Houchen Settlement House was founded in 1912 in Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas. El Paso was the chosen site to place a settlement house for Mexican immigrants because of its border location and risks linked with it. [clarify] Poverty, education and high infant mortality were concerns Houchen staff had to contend with on a daily basis ...
June 12, 1974. 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 ...
Holy Child Settlement: Poplar, East London: England Hull House: Chicago, Illinois: United States John Stewart Settlement House: Gary, Indiana: United States North East Neighborhood House: Minneapolis, Minnesota: United States Girls' Club of San Francisco: San Francisco, California: United States [[Whittier House (Jersey City, New Jersey ...
L. Lawrence House (Baltimore) Edward A. Lawrence Jr. Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House. Lowell House (New Haven, Connecticut)
Toynbee Hall is a charitable institution that works to address the causes and impacts of poverty in the East End of London and elsewhere. Established in 1884, it is based in Commercial Street, Spitalfields, and was the first university-affiliated institution of the worldwide settlement movement —a reformist social agenda that strove to get ...
Association House of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois. United States [ 3 ] Association of Neighbourhood Houses of British Columbia. British Columbia. Canada [ 4 ] Barton Hill Settlement. Bristol. England [ 5 ]