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In 1963, Hull-House, the world-famous social settlement house founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, moved from its original location on South Halsted Street in Chicago and decentralized its services.
Hull-House, founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, was the first social settlement in Chicago. The settlement was incorporated in March, 1895, with a stated purpose to "provide a center for higher civic and social life, to initiate and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprise...
Jun 17, 2021 · Based on the model of Toynbee Hall in the East End of London, Hull House was a secular settlement house, where middle-class women would volunteer their time to provide social and educational opportunities for working-class people, many of whom were newly-arrived European immigrants.
Feb 16, 2008 · Hull-House maps and papers, a presentation of nationalities and wages in a congested district of Chicago, together with comments and essays on problems growing out of the social conditions : Chicago. Hull House : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
This database contains digital images of the photographs in the Hull-House Yearbooks from the collection of the University of Illinois Chicago's Special Collections Department. They span the years 1906-1941.
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.
Exhibition curated by Susan Sessions Rugh, Special Collections Research Center Exhibition Researcher. The growth of settlement houses in Chicago and other cities in the late nineteenth century sprang from a desire to apply religious ideals to urban neighborhood reform.
