Hull House

Chicago, United States

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Located on Chicago's Near West Side, Hull House is an Italianate mansion built in 1889 and designed by the architectural firm Pond and Pond. Co-founded that year by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr as a settlement house to serve recently arrived European immigrants, it was named after the building's original owner, Charles Jerald Hull. The complex expanded dramatically, growing to thirteen buildings by 1911 and becoming the model for a national movement that reached approximately 500 settlement houses by 1920. Most of the Hull House complex was demolished in the mid-1960s to make way for the University of Illinois Chicago, but the original mansion and a community refectory—moved 200 yards from its original site—survive today. Now designated a National Historic Landmark, Chicago Landmark, and National Register property, the remaining buildings operate as the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.

Architect

Pond and Pond

Movement

Italianate architecture

Built: 1889
Type: mansion, historic house museum, settlement house
Heritage: National Register of Historic Places listed place, Chicago Landmark
Place: Chicago, United States

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41.87203, -87.64725