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20 Years at Hull House by Jane Addams

20 Years at Hull House

Jane Addams

Start Publishing LLC · Paperback · March 26, 2013

Hull House is a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.

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Who it’s for
Hull House offers a window onto immigrant life and the settlement-house movement in Chicago.
Genres
Women's Lives, Urban Life, Social History
Published
Start Publishing LLC, March 26, 2013

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About this book

Hull House is a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located in the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, Hull House opened its doors to the recently arrived European immigrants. By 1911, Hull House had grown to 13 buildings. In 1912 the Hull House complex was completed with the addition of a summer camp, the Bowen Country Club.

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With its innovative social, educational, and artistic programs, Hull House became the standard bearer for the movement that had grown, by 1920, to almost 500 settlement houses nationally.

City and Community

Hull House offers a window onto immigrant life and the settlement-house movement in Chicago.

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  • Chicago urban history centered on Hull House
  • The social, educational, and artistic work of settlement houses

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  • A social-history lens on a growing neighborhood institution
  • A wider view of a movement that spread across the country

Where it sits

Women's Lives74%
Urban Life31%
Social History28%

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Publisher categories

  • Midwest History
  • Western U.S. History
Authors
Jane Addams
Publisher
Start Publishing LLC
Published
March 26, 2013
Format
Paperback
Reading lane
Midwest History