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| Essential
Architecture- Chicago
Loop South Jane Addams' Hull House |
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architect |
House, unknown; Dining Hall, Pond & Pond |
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location |
800 S. Halsted |
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date |
1856; Dining Hall, 1906 |
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style |
Italianate |
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construction |
Brick |
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type |
House |
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Here, in 1889, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr started what became the
most influential social settlement house in America. They began in a
then-dilapidated, 33-year-old mansion that had been built by real estate
developer Charles J. Hull. By 1907, however, the settlement had grown
into a 13-building complex that enveloped the original building. In
1963, the settlement moved from this site, when it was acquired for the
new Chicago Circle Campus of the University of Illinois. As a memorial
to Jane Addams, the university retained the original Hull-House
Residents Dining Hall (dating to 1905) and rebuilt missing portions of
the original Hull House. |
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links |
With special thanks to the City of
Chicago website,
www.egov.cityofchicago.org , for much of the info on this page.
Photos copyright City of Chicago. |
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