Hull House

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Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, Hull House (named after the original house's first owner Charles Jerald Hull) opened to recently arrived European immigrants. By 1911, Hull House had grown to 13 buildings. In 1912 the Hull House complex was completed with the addition of a summer camp, the Bowen Country Club. With its innovative social, educational, and artistic programs, Hull House became the standard bearer for the movement that had grown, by 1920, to almost 500 settlement houses nationally.

Most of the Hull House buildings were demolished for the construction of the University of Illinois-Circle Campus in the mid-1960s. The Hull mansion and several subsequent acquisitions were continuously renovated to accommodate the changing demands of the association. The original building and one additional building (which has been moved 200 yards (182.9 m))survive today. On June 12, 1974, the Hull House building was designated a Chicago Landmark. On June 23, 1965, it was designated as a U.S. National Historic Landmark. On October 15, 1966, the day that the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 was enacted, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Hull House was one of the four original members to be listed on both the Chicago Registered Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places list (along with Chicago Pile-1, Robie House & Lorado Taft Midway Studios).The Hull House Association ceased operations in January 2012, but the Hull mansion and a related dining hall remain open as a museum.

Selected notable residents

• Edith Abbott
• Grace Abbott
• Jane Addams
• Ethel Percy Andrus
• Viola Spolin
• Neva Boyd
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Sophonisba Breckinridge
• Edward L Burchard, the first male resident
• Dorothy Detzer
• Pauline Gibling Schindler
• Henry Standing Bear
• Alice Hamilton
• Florence Kelley
• Mary Kenney O'Sullivan
• Julia Lathrop
• Mary McDowell
• Ernest Carroll Moore, founder and first provost of UCLA.
• Frances Perkins
• Gerard Swope, General Electric Company (1922–1939)[53]
• Alzina Stevens
• Cornelia De Bey
• Eleanor Clarke Slagle, founder of occupational therapy
• Victor Yarros and Rachelle Yarros
• Enella Benedict
• Emily Edwards(de Cantabrana)
• Willard Motley, author: Knock on Any Door. Resident writer at Hull House, Willard Motley used the Hull House Neighborhood, Taylor Street's Little Italy, and its people for the setting of his 1949 best seller. Taylor Street Archives(http://www.taylorstreetarchives.com/)

Notable alumni

• Benny Goodman

Links

• (Chicago). In the Vicinity of Maxwell Halsted Streets 1890-1930
• Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
• Jane Addams Hull House Association
• Twenty Years at Hull House, by Jane Addams, New York: The MacMillan Company, 1912 (c.1910) at A Celebration of Women Writers
• Twenty Years at Hull House, by Jane Addams, MacMillan & Co, 1910, at Project Gutenberg
• Twenty Years at Hull House public domain audiobook at LibriVox
• The Pots of Promise Exhibit
• Urban Experience In Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889–1963
• Hull House Jubilee Article
• Taylor Street Archives: UIC: Flawed History
• Bowen Country Club – digital images from the UIC Library collections
• Hull-House Yearbook – digital images from the UIC Library collections
• Closing of Hull House
• Staff Interview on Closing of Hull House