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Hull House
(U.S. National Historic Landmark)
Hull House (2006-12-08)
Hull House (2006-12-08)
Location: 800 S. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A National Historic Landmark (NHL is a Building, site, Structure, Object, or District, that is officially recognized by the Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room the second public library of Europe. Halsted, Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates: 41°52′19.28″N 87°38′50.11″W / 41.8720222, -87.6472528Coordinates: 41°52′19.28″N 87°38′50.11″W / 41.8720222, -87.6472528
Built/Founded: 1889
Designated as NHL: June 23, 1965[1]
Added to NRHP: October 15, 1966
Governing body: College of Architecture and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Hull House was co-founded in 1889, in Chicago, Illinois, by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr and is located in the Near West Side community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. A National Historic Landmark (NHL is a Building, site, Structure, Object, or District, that is officially recognized by the Events 1180 - First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan 1305 - The Flemish Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP is the United States government's official list of districts sites buildings structures and objects deemed worthy of Events 533 - Byzantine General Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. The University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. Laura Jane Addams (September 6 1860 &ndash May 21 1935 was a founder of the U Ellen Gates Starr ( March 19, 1859 near Laona Illinois – February 10, 1940 in Suffern New York) was an American Neighborhoods Greektown The Greektown section of Chicago is located roughly between Van Buren and Madison Streets along Halsted Street The City of Chicago is divided into seventy-seven community areas. Cook County is a county in the US state of Illinois. It is the second most populous county in the United States after Los Angeles The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the It was one of the first settlement houses in the U. For the organisations for kibbutzim and moshavim see Settlement movement (Israel The settlement movement was involved in the creation of "settlement S. and eventually grew into one of the largest, with facilities in 13 buildings. Because of the Hull House’s social, educational and artistic programs, it earned a reputation as the best-known settlement house in the U. S. and became the standard bearer for the movement that included almost 500 settlements nationally by 1920. [2]

The original building 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)[3] survive today. The original building was designated a Chicago Landmark on June 12, 1974. Events 1381 - Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. [4] It was designated as a U. S. National Historic Landmark on June 23, 1965. A National Historic Landmark (NHL is a Building, site, Structure, Object, or District, that is officially recognized by the Events 1180 - First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan 1305 - The Flemish Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. [5] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966, which is the day that the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 was enacted creating the register. The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP is the United States government's official list of districts sites buildings structures and objects deemed worthy of Events 533 - Byzantine General Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. The National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA Public Law 89-665 16 U

Contents

Mission

Hull House community workshop poster, 1938
Hull House community workshop poster, 1938

Following the example of the original settlement house, Toynbee Hall (founded in 1885 in the East End of London as a centre for social reform), Hull House had, at its inception five years later, the main purpose of providing social and educational opportunities for working class people (many of them recent immigrants) in the surrounding neighborhood. Toynbee Hall is the original university Settlement house of the settlement movement London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Working class is a term used in academic Sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe depending on context and speaker those employed in specific fields or types The Hull House conducted careful studies of the Near West Side, Chicago community area, which housed many of Chicago's most recent European immigrants. Neighborhoods Greektown The Greektown section of Chicago is located roughly between Van Buren and Madison Streets along Halsted Street The City of Chicago is divided into seventy-seven community areas. [6] The "residents" (volunteers at Hull were given this title) held classes in literature, history, art, domestic activities (such as sewing), and many other subjects. Hull House also held concerts that were free to everyone, offered free lectures on current issues, and operated clubs for both children and adults.

Accomplishments

During the first two decades of operation, Hull House attracted many female residents who later became prominent and influential reformers at various levels. [2] The settlement was also gradually drawn into advocating for legislative reforms at the municipal, state and federal levels, addressing issues such as child labor, women's suffrage, and immigration policy. Child labor is the employment of Children at regular and sustained labour Suffrage (from the Latin suffragium, meaning "voting tablet" and figuratively "right to vote" probably from suffrago "hough" and originally An immigration policy is any policy of a State that deals with the transit of persons across its borders but especially those that intend to work and to remain in the country Some claim that the work of the Hull House marked the beginning of what we know today as "Social Welfare". [7] At the neighborhood level, Hull House established the city’s first public playground and bathhouse, pursued educational and political reform, and investigated housing, working and sanitation issues. [2] At the municipal level, their pursuit of legal reforms led to the first juvenile court in the United States, and their work influenced urban planning and the transition to a branch library system. A juvenile court or young offender court is a court of law having special authority to try and pass judgments for Crimes committed by children or adolescents [2] At the state level Hull House influenced legislation on child labor laws, occupational safety and health provisions, compulsory education, immigrant rights, and pension laws. Child labor is the employment of Children at regular and sustained labour Occupational safety and health is a cross-disciplinary area concerned with protecting the Safety, Health and welfare of people engaged in Compulsory education is Education which children are required by law to receive and governments to provide Immigration refers to the movement of people among countries While the movement of people has existed throughout human history at various levels modern immigration implies long-term [2] These experiences translated to success at the federal level, working with the settlement house network to champion national child labor laws, women’s suffrage, a Children’s Bureau, unemployment compensation, workers' compensation and other elements of the Progressive agenda during the first two decades of the 20th century. Unemployment benefits are payments made by Governments to unemployed people Workers' compensation (colloquially known as workers' comp in North America or compo in Australia) a form of Insurance that provides [2]

Teachings

Hull House
Smith Hall along Halsted St., 1910‎
Smith Hall along Halsted St., 1910‎
Women's Club building, 1905
Women's Club building, 1905
Children in line on a retaining wall at Hull House, 1908
Children in line on a retaining wall at Hull House, 1908

Later, the settlement branched out and offered services to ameliorate some of the effects of poverty. Halsted Street is a major north-south street in the American city of Chicago, Illinois. A public dispensary provided nutritious food for the sick as well as a daycare center and public baths. Among the courses Hull House offered was a bookbinding course, which was timely given the employment opportunities in the growing printing trade. Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a Book from a number of folded or unfolded sheets of Paper or other material [8] Hull House was well known for its success in aiding American assimilation, especially with immigrant youth. [9] Hull House became the center of the movement to promote hand workmanship as a moral regenerative force. [10] The success of Hull House led Paul Kellogg to refer to the group as the "Great Ladies of Halsted Street. Paul Kellogg may refer to Paul Kellogg (American journalist Paul Kellogg (Canadian political writer [11]

The objective of Hull House, as stated in its charter, was: "To provide a center for a higher civic and social life; to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago. "[12]

The Building

Starr, 1914
Starr, 1914
Addams in a car, 1915
Addams in a car, 1915

Hull House was located in, and took its name from, the Italianate mansion built by real estate magnate Charles J. In the course of the history of Classical architecture, an Italianate style of architecture was a distinct nineteenth-century phase in which Italian sixteenth-century Hull at 800 South Halsted Street in 1856. The building was located in what had once been a fashionable part of town, but by 1889, when Addams was searching for a location for her experiment, it had descended into squalor. This was partly due to the rapid and overwhelming influx of immigrants into the Near West Side neighborhood. Neighborhoods Greektown The Greektown section of Chicago is located roughly between Van Buren and Madison Streets along Halsted Street Charles Hull granted his former home to his niece Helen Culver, who in turn granted it to Addams on a 25-year rent-free lease. Born in 1832 Helen Culver was a successful real estate developer and philanthropist By 1907, Addams had acquired 13 buildings surrounding Hull's mansion. Between 1889 and 1935, Addams and Ellen Gates Starr continuously redeveloped the building. [3] The facility remained at the original location until it was purchased in 1963 by what was then called the University of Illinois-Circle Campus. The University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago. [13] The development of University of Illinois-Circle Campus required the demolition of many surrounding Hull House buildings[3] and the 1967 restoration to the original building by Frazier, Raftery, Orr and Fairbank removed Addam's third floor addition. Of the dozen additional buildings only the craftsman style dining hall (built in 1905 and designed by Pond & Pond) survives and it was moved 200 yards from its original site. The Arts and Crafts Movement was a British, Canadian, and American Aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the [14][3]

The Haunting of Hull House

Over the years, numerous stories of ghosts and hauntings have surrounded Hull House, making it a stop on many of the "ghosts in Chicago" tours. A ghost is said to be the apparition of a Deceased person frequently similar in appearance to that person and usually encountered in places she or he frequented Charles Hull's wife had died in her bedroom, which was later used by Addams after the establishment of Hull House. Addams did not believe in ghosts, but noted that many believed that building to be haunted in her book Twenty Years at Hull House. [15]

In 1913, another Hull House ghost story began circulating. According to this legend, after a man claimed that he would rather have the Devil in his house than a picture of The Virgin Mary, his child was born with pointed ears, horns, scale-covered skin and a tail, though the child, in fact, was born with no limbs, and an extended tail bone ("More Haunted Houses: Tortured Souls"[16] ). The Devil is the The mother was said to have taken the baby to Hull House, where Addams attempted to have it baptized and wound up locking it in the attic. In Christianity, baptism ( Greek, "immersing" "performing Ablutions " is the ritual act with the use of water by which one is admitted [17]. While initially annoyed about the story, which had no basis in fact, Addams used the episode as a basis for her book, The Long Road of Woman's Memory. [18].

Theater

Addams felt that the community benefits from theater plays and thus established an amateur theater in the Hull House in 1899. [19] In 1963, when road tours of Broadway productions became common, the Hull House Theater in the Jane Addams Center at 3212 North Broadway fostered the development of Chicago Theater companies for the rest of the century. Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located [19] Founder, Bob Sickinger created an environment to nourish young talent with professionalism. [20]

Today

Addams ran Hull House as head resident until her death in 1935. Hull House continued to serve the community surrounding the Halsted location until it was displaced by the urban campus of the University of Illinois. Today, the social service center role is performed throughout the city at various locations under the Jane Addams Hull House Association umbrella organization. The association has, since 1962, perpetuated the name and many of the aspirations of the original institution. [2] The original Hull House building itself is a museum, part of the College of Architecture and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is open to the public. The University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago.

Also, Jane Addams Hull House Association is one of Chicago’s largest not-for-profit social welfare organizations. Its mission is to improve social conditions for underserved people and communities by providing creative, innovative programs and by advocating for related public policy reforms. The Association has more than 60 programs at over 40 sites throughout Chicago and serves approximately 60,000 individuals, families and community members every year.

Selected notable residents

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Hull House. Dorothy Detzer ( December 1, 1893 in Ft Wayne Indiana - January 7, 1981 in Monterey California) was for twenty-two years Alice Hamilton ( February 27, 1869 &ndash September 22, 1970) was the first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard University and Florence Kelley ( September 12, 1859 &ndash February 17, 1932) was a social and political reformer from Philadelphia. Julia Lathrop ( June 29, 1858 - April 15, 1932) was an American social reformer Alzina Stevens ( Maine 1849 - Chicago 1900 was a trade unionist and active in Hull House. The Jane Addams Burial Site is located in Cedarville Cemetery in the village of Cedarville Illinois, United States. The John H Addams Homestead, also known as the Jane Addams Birthplace, is located in the Stephenson County village of Cedarville, Illinois, National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved on 2008-06-11. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned according to the calculations of Eratosthenes.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Johnson, Mary Ann, Hull House, p. 402, Eds. Grossman, James R. , Keating, Ann Durkin, and Reiff, Janice L. , 2004 The Encyclopedia of Chicago. The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-31015-9
  3. ^ a b c d Schulte, Franz and Kevin Harrington, Chicago's Famous Buildings, fifth edition, University of Chicago Press, 2003, pp. 212-3, ISBN 0-226-74066-8.
  4. ^ Jane Addams' Hull House. City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Landmarks Division. (2003). Retrieved on March 6, 2007. Events 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar. 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
  5. ^ Hull House. National Park Service. Retrieved on March 23, 2007. Events 1174 - Jocelin, Abbot of Melrose, is elected Bishop of Glasgow. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
  6. ^ Hull-House Maps Its Neighborhood. The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago. Chicago Historical Society (2005). Retrieved on March 26, 2007. Events 1026 - Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
  7. ^ Jackson, Shannon. "Theorizing: 'The Scaffolding'. " Lines of Activity Performance, Historiography, Hull House Domesticity. Ann Arbor: the University of Michigan Press, 2001 as cited at http://louisville.edu/a-s/english/haymarket/stanton/bibpage.html on March 28, 2007.
  8. ^ Gehl, Paul F. , Book Arts, p. 87, Eds. Grossman, James R. , Keating, Ann Durkin, and Reiff, Janice L. , 2004 The Encyclopedia of Chicago. The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-31015-9
  9. ^ Gems, Gerald R. , Clubs: Youth Clubs, p. 181, Eds. Grossman, James R. , Keating, Ann Durkin, and Reiff, Janice L. , 2004 The Encyclopedia of Chicago. The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-31015-9
  10. ^ Darling, Sharon S. , Arts and Crafts Movement, p. 49, Eds. Grossman, James R. , Keating, Ann Durkin, and Reiff, Janice L. , 2004 The Encyclopedia of Chicago. The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-31015-9
  11. ^ McMillen, Wayne (2007). SSA Tour: Edith Abbott. The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Retrieved on 2007-01-07. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental
  12. ^ All ACUA Staff (2007). Hull House Settlement House Questionnaire, 1893. The Catholic University Of America. Retrieved on 2007-03-26. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1026 - Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
  13. ^ Jane Addams' Hull House. City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Landmarks Division. (2003). Retrieved on 2007-01-03. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
  14. ^ Sinkevitch, Alice, AIA Guide To Chicago, second edition, A Harcourt Original, 2004, pp. 301-2, ISBN 0-15-222900-0.
  15. ^ J. Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House, (New York: MacMillan & Co. , 1910), ch. 5.
  16. ^ Watch More Haunted Houses: Tortured Souls and Restless Spirits. on A&E TV
  17. ^ Weird & Haunted Chicago, "Jane Addams' Hull House". Troy Taylor (2000). Retrieved on 2007-01-03. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
  18. ^ {{cite web |url= http://weirdchicago.blogspot.com/search/label/devil%20baby |title="Weird Chicago Blog: The Devil Baby of Hull House |publisher= Troy Taylor |year= 2008
  19. ^ a b Christiansen, Richard, Theater Companies, p. 817-8, Eds. Grossman, James R. , Keating, Ann Durkin, and Reiff, Janice L. , 2004 The Encyclopedia of Chicago. The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-31015-9
  20. ^ Telli, Andrea and Richard Pettengill, Acting, Ensemble, p. 2-3, Eds. Grossman, James R. , Keating, Ann Durkin, and Reiff, Janice L. , 2004 The Encyclopedia of Chicago. The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-31015-9

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