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| | Helen Culver |
 | | (I acknowledge gratefully Peggy Glowacki, assistant to the director of Jane Addams' Hull House Museum, for calling my attention to Miss Culver, for providing Miss Culver's 1925 Lake Forester obituary, and for offering corrections to this article in draft. |
 | | The repeated diamond motif, a frequent design element in the Hull House buildings as depicted by Norma Hamilton in her drawings for Twenty Years At Hull House, is used at "Rookwoods" both in third-floor windows above the entry and also in the balustrade on the second floor porch. |
 | | In addition to backing Jane Addams and contributing substantially to founding the comprehensive settlement-house movement in America (she was a trustee of Hull House until 1898 when she was sixty-five), along with other philanthropic projects Miss Culver donated a million dollars to the University of Chicago, for biological research: buildings and endowment. |
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