Hull House, Near West Side, Chicago
Hull house was a settlement set up by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in Chicago in 1989. Named after the house's first owner, it's purpose was the three "R"s, as Jane Addams wrote: residence, research, and reform. It housed immigrants, mainly women, and these residents would conduct studies on such subjects as the causes of poverty and dependence, and studied the Near West Side, Chicago, the neighborhood where the House was locates, which came to be called the "Hull House Neighborhood". The studies that the residence preformed were presented to the public, and helped to develop programs to improve the chance of success of the immigrant population.
"If the early American Settlements stood for a more exigent standard in philanthropic activities, insisting that each new undertaking should be preceded by carefully ascertained facts, then certainly Hull-House held to this standard in the opening of our new coffee- house first started as a public kitchen." -Jane Addams talking about Hull House Up to that time, our history had been as the minor peace of the early Church. We had had the most generous interpretation of our efforts. Of course, many people were indifferent to the idea of the Settlement; others looked on with tolerant and sometimes cynical amusement which we would often encounter in a good story related at our expense; but all this was remote and unreal to us, and we were sure that if the critics could but touch "the life of the people," they would understand. -Jane Addams talking about Hull House |
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