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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.
Hull House, one of the first social settlements in North America. It was founded in Chicago in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr to aid needy immigrants. It became a complex, containing a gymnasium, social and cooperative clubs, shops, housing for children, and playgrounds.
Hull-House has long been a center of Chicago’s political and cultural life, establishing Chicago’s first public playground and public art gallery, helping to desegregate the Chicago Public Schools, and influencing philanthropy and culture.
Jane Addams and Hull House were pioneers of social reform in the United States. Addams’ efforts, both through Hull House and independently, laid groundwork for women’s rights, children’s rights, workers’ rights, and education still felt today.
Hull-House expanded from one aging mansion, built by Charles J. Hull in 1856, into a 13-building complex that spanned an entire city block. Its facilities included a gymnasium, theater, art gallery, libraries, pools, classrooms, a kindergarten, and dormitories.
Hull-House, Chicago's first social settlement house, was not only the private home of Jane Addams and other Hull-House Residents, but also a place where immigrants of diverse communities gathered to learn, to eat, to debate, and to acquire the tools necessary to put down roots in their new country.
Hull House, Chicago's first and the nation's most influential settlement house, was established by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr on the Near West Side on September 18, 1889. By 1907, the converted 1856 mansion had expanded to a massive 13-building complex covering nearly a city block.
Explore the two-floors of the Hull Mansion in beautiful 360-degrees. Hear from three guides by clicking the speaker symbols throughout the museum for a guided tour or simply click and drag or look around for a self-guided tour.
Hull-House was the first settlement house established in the United States. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965. Many Hull-House staff members were white women who came from upper- and middle-class families.
Social reformer Jane Addams and close friend Ellen Gates Starr founded Hull-House, Chicago’s first settlement house, in the Near West Side in 1889. “Residents,” progressive-minded men and women often from comfortable backgrounds, settled at Hull-House and assisted in the many programs offered.
