Hull House
Americannoun
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The best known was Hull House in Chicago, co-founded by social reformer Jane Addams.
From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2022
This new post and funding, a result of Hamilton’s growing reputation, connections at the Hull House and advocacy work, gave Hamilton nine months to draw a direct line between "disease and occupation."
From Scientific American • Oct. 23, 2019
The Hull House playground was more elaborate, with sandpiles, swings, building blocks, a giant slide, and ball courts for older children.
From Slate • Jun. 15, 2018
She co-founded Hull House, in Chicago, which inspired the creation of other settlement houses across the nation.
From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2015
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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