Hull House

Examples of Hull House in the following topics:

• The Settlement House Movement

  • Located in the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, Hull House opened its doors to 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.
  • Hull House conducted careful studies of the community of Near West Side, Chicago, which became known as "The Hull House Neighborhood."
  • Children in line on a retaining wall at Hull House, 1908.

• Social Justice

  • Hull House was 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.
  • 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.

• Maternalist Reform

  • In 1890 Julia Lathrop moved to Chicago, where she joined Jane Addams, Ellen Gates Starr, Alzina Stevens, Edith Abbott, Grace Abbott, Florence Kelley, Mary McDowell, Alice Hamilton, Sophonisba Breckinridge, and other social reformers at Hull House.
  • Lathrop ran a discussion group called the Plato Club in the early days of the House.
  • The women at Hull House actively campaigned to persuade Congress to pass legislation to protect children.
  • Lathrop's experience at the Hull House and as a Charities Board member had given her firsthand knowledge of the conditions for children in county poorhouses and jails.

• Middle-Class Reformers

  • Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace.

• The Social Problem

  • Followers of the new Awakening promoted the idea of the Social Gospel ,which gave rise to organizations such as the YMCA, the American branch of the Salvation Army, and settlement houses such as Hull House, founded by Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889.

• Tenements and Overcrowding

  • It is the lullaby of tenement-house babes.
  • The most famous settlement house in the United States is Chicago's Hull House, founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 after Addams visited Toynbee Hall within the previous two years.
  • Hull House became, at its inception in 1889, "a community of university women," whose main purpose was to provide social and educational opportunities for working-class people (many of them recent European immigrants) in the surrounding neighborhood.
  • The "residents" (volunteers at Hull were given this title) held classes in literature, history, art, domestic activities (such as sewing), and many other subjects.
  • Hull House also held concerts that were free to everyone, offered free lectures on current issues, and operated clubs for both children and adults.

• Progressivism and Religion

  • With Jane Addams's Hull House in Chicago as its center, the settlement house movement and the vocation of social work were deeply influenced by the Social Gospel.
  • "GROUP OF COLORED WOMEN IN FAITH HOME, NEW ORLEANS, IN 1898" Shows group of women on porch and seated on steps of "Faith Home", a Baptist run charity house giving home to destitute and feeble female former slaves.

• Social Justice

  • For example, Jane Addams of Chicago's Hull House typified the leadership of residential, community centers operated by professionalized social workers and volunteers and located in inner city slums.
  • The purpose of the settlement houses was to raise the standard of living of urbanites by providing adult education and cultural enrichment programs that would enable poverty-stricken adults to market themselves in the labor force.

• The War in the North

  • On July 12, 1812, General William Hull led an invading American force of about 1,000 untrained, poorly-equipped militia across the Detroit River and occupied the Canadian town of Sandwich, now a neighborhood of Windsor, Ontario.
  • Once on Canadian soil, Hull issued a proclamation ordering all British subjects to surrender.
  • Hull's army was too weak in artillery, however, and by August, Hull and his troops retreated to Detroit.
  • Hull and his troops surrendered Detroit without a fight on August 16.
  • Knowing of British-supported attacks from American Indians in other locations, Hull ordered the evacuation of the inhabitants of Fort Dearborn (Chicago) to Fort Wayne.

• The British Strategy

  • On July 12, 1812, General William Hull led an invading American force of about 1,000 untrained, poorly-equipped militia across the Detroit River and occupied the Canadian town of Sandwich, now a neighborhood of Windsor, Ontario.
  • By August, Hull and his troops, numbering 2,500 with the addition of 500 Canadians, retreated to Detroit, where they surrendered to a force of British regulars, Canadian militia, and Native Americans led by British Major General Isaac Brock and Shawnee leader Tecumseh.