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  2. Settlement and community houses in the United States

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    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 ...

  3. Mary Kenney O'Sullivan - Wikipedia

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    She was a member of the Jane Addams's settlement house movement, moving into Hull House in the 1880s. There she proceeded to organize women's work and clubs. Later in 1884, she married a labor editor and organizer named John O'Sullivan at Boston. They moved into Denison House, a settlement house where O'Sullivan continued to perform labor ...

  4. Jane Addams - Wikipedia

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    Jane Addams House is a residence hall built in ... Social Thought and the American Settlement Movement, 1885 ... Mary Jo. "Jane Addams, the Hull-House School of ...

  5. Settlement movement - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Hull House - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Ellen Gates Starr - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Social housekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Julia Lathrop, Jane Addams, and Mary McDowell in Washington. Social housekeeping, also known as municipal or civil housekeeping, was a socio-political movement that occurred primarily through the 1880s to the early 1900s in the Progressive Era around the United States.

  9. Mary Rozet Smith - Wikipedia

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    Mary Rozet Smith (December 23, 1868 – February 22, 1934) was a Chicago-born US philanthropist who was one of the trustees and benefactors of Hull House. She was the partner of activist Jane Addams for over thirty years. Smith provided the financing for the Hull House Music School and donated the school's organ as a memorial to her mother.