Hull House
Americannoun
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In 1889, Jane Addams founded Hull House in Chicago, a social settlement for young, unmarried women and immigrants who needed a safe home and a sense of community.
From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2020
You might say Hamilton got fully “woke” when Addams made a place for her in Chicago’s Hull House, the largest of the nation’s settlement communities.
From Scientific American • Oct. 23, 2019
One opened in New York that year and another, in Chicago, in 1892 at reformer Jane Addams’s Hull House.
From Slate • Jun. 15, 2018
Jane Addams is best known for her work in establishing the Chicago-based Hull House, where immigrants were offered English lessons, child care and other services.
From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2017
Hull House had become a bastion of progressive thought inhabited by strong-willed young women, “interspersed,” as one visitor put it, “with earnest-faced, self-subordinating and mild-mannered men who slide from room to room apologetically.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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