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  Hull House
Hull House, Chicago's first and the nation's most influential settlement house, was established by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr on the Near West Side on September 18, 1889.
On the federal level, Hull House residents joined with settlement house leaders and reformers nationwide to fight for national child labor laws, women's suffrage, the establishment of a Children's Bureau, unemployment compensation, workers' compensation, and the many other reforms that made up the Progressive agenda in the first two decades of the twentieth century.
Hull House continued to be active on Halsted Street until the 1960s, when it was displaced by the University of Illinois' new urban campus.
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/615.html   (445 words)

  
 Kingston upon Hull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hull is the home of the Queens Gardens, the Hull Marina and is close to the Humber Bridge, the fourth-longest single-span suspension bridge in the world.
Hull is twinned with Freetown in Sierra Leone, Niigata in Japan, Raleigh, North Carolina in the USA, Reykjavik in Iceland, Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Szczecin in Poland.
Hull was a major port during the Later Middle Ages and its merchants traded widely to ports in Northern Germany and the Baltic region and the Low Countries.
www.hullhouses.co.uk /abouthull.html   (1566 words)

  
 Hull House
This was reinforced by the arrival in 1891 of Florence Kelley at Hull House.
Hull House was also visited by a large number of people who were to later have a profound impact on the development of the modern world.
Hull House was American because it was international, and because it perceived that the nationalism of each immigrant was a treasure, a talent, which gave him a special value for the United States.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAhullhouse.htm   (6581 words)

  
 Hull House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hull House, co-founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr who were soon joined by other volunteers called "residents," was one of the first settlement houses in the U.S. and eventually grew into one of the largest, with facilities in 13 buildings.
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.”
Today the Hull House is a museum and is open to the public.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hull_House   (306 words)

  
 JANE ADDAM'S HULL HOUSE
Hull House was constructed by Charles J. Hull at Halsted and Polk Streets in 1856 at a time when this was one of the most fashionable sections of the city.
By the 1880's, Hull House was surrounded by factories and tenement houses and soon after, became one of the most famous places in Chicago.
Hull House received its greatest notoriety when it was alleged to be the refuge of the Chicago "devil baby".
www.prairieghosts.com /hull.html   (1643 words)

  
 Hull LBAP : House Martin
House Martins are perfectly adapted to life in the air and much of their time is spent on the wing, although they readily settle on buildings and telephone wires.
House Martins are summer visitors to Britain, they arrive in spring to breed, leaving in September for the long journey back to Africa where they spend the winter.
House Martins feed entirely on insects so they can not be attracted by providing food, but a muddy pool or puddle where they can collect nesting material is helpful, especially during a dry spring.
www.hull.ac.uk /HBP/ActionPlan/HMartin.htm   (1178 words)

  
 Jane Addams and Hull House
Hull House, started by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, is a social settlement house in Chicago that means to improve the lives of those who it encounters.
Hull House even had a coffee shop that provided reasonably priced hot lunches for working people, as well as breakfast and dinner for its staff (11-12).
Hull House can even be considered as the starting point of what we now refer to as “social welfare” (Jackson 5).
www.louisville.edu /a-s/english/haymarket/stanton/hullhouse.html   (812 words)

  
 Chicago: 1889 Jane Addams Hull House
Hull House was opened by Miss Jane Addams in 1889 in the Charles Hull mansion at 800 S. Halsted street, built in 1856 by a wealthy real estate man. Aided by Ellen Gates Starr, Miss Addams helped hundreds of Chicago immigrants and others gain a place of self-respect in society.
South of the original Hull House is the restored settlement dining hall, one of the first buildings in addition to the main house opened by Jane Addams.
Hull House became a national historic landmark in June of 1967.
cpl.lib.uic.edu /004chicago/timeline/hullhouse.html   (251 words)

  
 James Heyward Hull House, Shelby, North Carolina: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
The James Heyward Hull House is an excellent 1907 Neoclassical Revival style dwelling in Shelby, one of several built at the turn of the century by some of Shelby's most prominent residents.
The James Heyward Hull House, facing west, is a two-story, square-in-plan main block with a central hall and triple- pile floor plan.
The James Heyward Hull House was part of the development of a principal neighborhood for Shelby's industrialists, merchants, and professionals during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/shelby/jhh.HTM   (604 words)

  
 Welcome to Jane Addams Hull-House Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, part of the College of Architecture and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is a historic site and memorial to Jane Addams, her innovative settlement house programs and associates, and the neighborhood they served.
Housed in two original Hull-House buildings, the museum is an internationally recognized symbol of multicultural understanding, reflecting the long Hull-House tradition of social service and reform, educational innovation, and urban research.
A National Historic Landmark, the Charles J. Hull mansion, pictured above, was built in 1856 and occupied by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889.
www.uic.edu /jaddams/hull/hull_house.html   (212 words)

  
 Hull House Maps & Papers - Appendix - Outline Sketch Descriptive of Hull-House - Jane Addams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The connection of the House with the labor movement may be said to have begun on the same social basis as its other relations.
During the last year the use of a piece of ground near Hull-House measuring 326 X 119 was given rent free for a year, and in case it should not be sold in the meantime, for a longer period.
The owner permitted the houses upon it, which were in bad sanitary condition, to be torn down; the ground was graded, fenced, provided with swings and other enticing apparatus, an officer was supplied from the city force, and a playground was thrown open to the juvenile public.
www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/DSS/Addams/hhapp.html   (5626 words)

  
 Rice Hull House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In their raw and unprocessed state, rice hulls constitute a Class A or Class I insulation material, and therefore, they can be used very economically to insulate the wall, floor and roof cavities of a super-insulated Rice Hull House.
Since rice hulls do not burn very easily, they require no flame or smolder retardants, and since they are so tough and durable, nothing prevents them from being used and recycled over and over again.
Although charred rice hulls have been sold as an insulation material in loose-fill applications under the trademark name of Mehabit, it is hard to find evidence that fresh hulls have been used for this purpose.
www.axwoodfarm.com /PAHS/RiceHulls.html   (5284 words)

  
 20 YEARS AT HULL HOUSE
No effort is made in the recital to separate my own history from that of Hull House during the years in which I was "launched deep into the stormy intercourse of human life" for, so far as a mind is pliant under the pressure of events and experiences, it becomes hard to detach it.
But Hull House was soberly opened on the theory that the dependence of classes on each other is reciprocal; and that as the social relation is essentially a reciprocal relation, it gives a form of expression that has peculiar value.
The house was of course rented, the lower part of it used for offices and storerooms in connection with a factory that stood back of it.
www.fdungan.com /20years.htm   (13377 words)

  
 Hull City Council : Museums and galleries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Wilberforce House was the birthplace and residence of the city’s most celebrated son, William Wilberforce, the Hull Member of Parliament who campaigned against the slave trade in the 19th century.
The house is closed for a multi-million-pound refurbishment and is due to re-open in early 2007, forming the centrepiece in the city’s commemorations of the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire.
Adjoining Streetlife is the Hull and East Riding Museum, which tells the amazing story of Hull and East Yorkshire from the beginning of geological time, through the early tribes, Saxon and Roman invaders, all the way up to the 17th century, when the city we see today really began to take shape.
www.hullcc.gov.uk /portal/page?_pageid=221,52845&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL   (651 words)

  
 Gilded Age: 1884-1891: Haymarket and Hull House
Established as a settlement house after the example of English reformers who took up residence in London's slums, the dilapidated mansion soon featured public baths, a kindergarten and nursury, a playground and gymnasium, an employment bureau, and educational programs for neighborhood residents.
Hull House's residents came to include, at different times and in addition to Addams, Florence Kelley, Sophonisba Breckinridge Dr. Alice Hamilton, Julia Lathrop, and Ellen Gates Starr.
Hull House also facilitated the State of Illinois' investigations of social ills, including truancy, infant mortality and sanitation.
dig.lib.niu.edu /gildedage/narr6.html   (1249 words)

  
 Hull Yacht Club: Club History
The original Hull Yacht Club was organized in the year 1880 and incorporated two years later on March 25, 1882.
The four-floor "Hull House" (see picture below) of the Hull Yacht Club enticed new members with three bowling alleys, a billiard room, a dining room and two reception rooms, not to mention easy access to the waters of Boston Harbor.
The annual dinner, held at the Parker House, was attended by 140 members, and Captain Joshua James of the Hull Life Saving Station was the guest of honor.
www.hullyc.org /club_history.shtml   (608 words)

  
 Lessons From Hull House
Moreover, Hull House was a site for labor union activities; a forum for social, political, and economic reform; and a center for social science research.
[16] The changing relationship of Addams and her Hull House colleagues with the Chicago sociologists from the 1890s to the late 1910s mirrored the American university's transition from an outwardly directed, service-centered institution to an inwardly directed, discipline-centered institution.
Not surprisingly, that activity was associated with the charismatic leadership of Addams of Hull House, Graham Taylor of Chicago Commons, and Lillian Wald of Henry Street Settlement, and it was not broadly institutionalized.
comm-org.wisc.edu /papers96/hull.html   (8957 words)

  
 Search Results for "Hull House"
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 Jane Addams Hull House Association - Chicago, IL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
CHICAGO – The Jane Addams Hull House Center for Arts and Culture is delighted to present “Expressions of Ability, Community Artists Speak From Within” an art exhibit and series of arts events in conjunction with Bodies of Work - The Chicago Festival of Disability Arts and Culture.
Hull House is conducting a self-care training for the service professional entitled “Dealing with Compassion Fatigue and Enhancing Your Resilience.” Because service professions often put so much effort into their work, they experience significant work stress that prevents them from being effective.
The Jane Addams Hull House is one of Chicago’s largest not-for-profit social welfare organizations and was founded in 1889.
www.hullhouse.org /arts   (1137 words)

  
 US Political Thought, Notes on Jane Addams and Hull House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
On the contrary, it treated society itself as the “domestic sphere,” beginning with the neighborhood and reaching outward, and it enabled settlement activists (who were primarily women) to reinvent social reform as the expression of an expanded sense of familial love and care, of familial conviviality, of neighborliness, and of household management.
She and the women scientists of Hull House (such as Dr. Alice Hamilton and Florence Kelley) grounded their scientific practice in concern for and engagement with the lives of the working poor of Chicago.
In this formulation she anticipated Sandra Harding’s contemporary feminist influenced philosophy of science, according to which scientific understanding is enhanced, and biases overcome, by the inclusion of the perspectives of socially disadvantaged and marginalized groups.
www.ux1.eiu.edu /~cfjab/addams_h.html   (928 words)

  
 Hyacinth House Antiques and Collectibles Pottery and Stoneware,Hull Directory
Hull underplate for Centennial Eagle pitcher (F92), 7 1/2 in., in matte white with stars on handles, c.
Hull Imperial Florist Ware large rectangular planter with fluted rim (F47), 11.75 x 4.75 x 4 in., in olive green with white drip rim, c.
Hull Imperial Florist Ware cylindrical vase on short foot (F35), 9 x 3 3/8 in., in olive green with white drip glaze, c.
www.cyberattic.com /stores/hyhouse2/catalog/Pottery_and_Stoneware:Hull.html   (322 words)

  
 Collectible and Antique Dinnerware, Hull on CYBERATTIC.
Hull Mirror Brown coffee cup with Yale University insignia in white, c.
Hull Imperial Florist Ware rectangular low floral bowl (F41), 7.5 x 5.5 in., in dark olive green with white drip rim, c.
This piece was part of Hull's Garden Dishes line, which were advertised as functional planters which could then be used for snack or serving bowls.
www.cyberattic.com /directory/Dinnerware:Hull.html   (623 words)

  
 Jane Addams Hull House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The house was located at 800 S. Halsted, and it was built in 1856.
Owned and operated by the University of Illinois, the Hull House is a historic site and a memorial to Jane Addams.
It was built as a welfare agency for needy families and to combat juvenile delinquency.
www.palos118.org /south/illinois/hull   (114 words)

  
 Freedom: A History of US. Webisode 10: Yearning to Breathe Free. Segment 3 | PBS
Then she visited a house for the poor in London, England, and her life was transformed.
One Hull House visitor said this after meeting her: "She is the only saint the United States has produced."
At first, all financial support for the Hull House settlement derived from income on the $50,000 estate that Jane Addams inherited on her father's death in 1881.
www.pbs.org /wnet/historyofus/web10/segment3.html   (330 words)

  
 The First Measured Century: Timeline: Data - Hull House
Hull House is the most famous "settlement house" in American history.
In 1895, Hull House published a compilation of information they had gathered about wages, ethnicities and other social variables.
The residents had gathered this information in the neighborhoods surrounding Hull House in Chicago.
www.pbs.org /fmc/timeline/dhullhouse.htm   (98 words)

  
 Jane Addams biography
Jane Addams is remembered primarily as a founder of the Settlement House Movement.
She and her friend Ellen Starr founded Hull House in the slums of Chicago in 1889.
Thousands of people came to her funeral at Hull House before she was taken to Cedarville to be buried.
www.lkwdpl.org /wihohio/adda-jan.htm   (1301 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics): Books: Jane ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
After visiting Toynbee Hall, Addams decided to establish a similar settlement house in the rapidly-growing city of Chicago, where "the evil and vices of American life seemed to be exaggerated." Her experiences at this settlement house are the subject of this book.
For decades a Hull House sojourn, or at least a visit, was virtually a pilgrimage for all kinds of progressive reformers.
The Hull House also served as a women's institution of sociology and Addams was a friend and colleague to the early men of the Chicago School of Sociology influencing their social thought of the time through her work in applied sociology, which became defined as social work by academic sociologists of the time.
www.amazon.com /Twenty-Years-Hull-House-Autobiographical-Twentieth/dp/0141180994   (2238 words)

  
 Chapter V.
The houses of the ward, for the most part wooden, were originally built for one family and are now occupied by several.
The little wooden houses have a temporary aspect, and for this reason, perhaps, the tenement-house legislation in Chicago is totally inadequate.
Rear tenements flourish; many houses have no water supply save the faucet in the back yard, there are no fire escapes, the garbage and ashes are placed in wooden boxes which are fastened to the street pave- [Page 100] ments.
digital.library.upenn.edu /women/addams/hullhouse/hullhouse-05.html   (3816 words)

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