settlement houses

1. Social and cultural centers established by reformers in slum areas of American cities during the 1890s and the early 1900s. Jane Addams founded the most famous settlement house, in Chicago . ( See Progressive movement .)

Notes

Settlement houses attracted idealistic college graduates eager to learn how the poor lived and to improve the condition of the poor.

Example Sentences

There are two other settlement houses in Chicago which are managed in the spirit of Hull House.

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They do it in other settlement houses, and it shall be done here!

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Some have been installed in settlement houses and public schools.

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The settlement houses of which there are several, might naturally take the lead.

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For the most part, neophytes were in charge at the settlement houses.

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