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Hull House History. In 1889, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr opened Hull House as a place to offer accommodation, education and opportunity to the residents of the impoverished Halsted Street area, a densely populated urban neighborhood of Italian, Irish, German, Greek, Bohemian, Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants.
Place. Hull-House. The first settlement house in the United States, founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. V.O. Hammon Publishing Co. Quick Facts. Location: 800 S. Halsted Street, Chicago, IL. Significance: First settlement house in the United States. Designation: National Historic Landmark. MANAGED BY: Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.
Apr 16, 2010 · Hull House founder and peace activist Jane Addams (1860-1935) was one of the most distinguished of the first generation of college-educated women, rejecting marriage and motherhood in favor of...
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.
Virtual Tours of Hull-House. Jane Addams Hull-House Museum has partnered with Gail Borden Public Library District, Schaumburg Township District Library, Aurora Public Library, Arlington Heights Memorial Library, and Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS) to pilot new virtual tours.
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.
Hull-House became a symbol of progressivism, the reform movement that flourished between 1890 and 1920 as it tried to better a country battered by industrialization, the explosive growth of cities, and the sudden arrival of millions of immigrants, mostly poor. Today, interest in Jane Addams is keen, and her reputation is in ascent.
