Hull House
| Hull House | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
| National Historic Landmark | |||
 Hull House Chicago (2010) |
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| location | Chicago , Cook County , Illinois | ||
| Coordinates | 41 ° 52 '18 " N , 87 ° 38' 51" W | ||
| Built | 1889 | ||
| Architectural style | Italianate | ||
| NRHP number | 66000315 | ||
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| The NRHP added | October 15, 1966 | ||
| Declared as an NHL | June 23, 1965 | ||
Hull House is the name of a pioneering settlement movement in Chicago . The Hull House was founded in 1889 in the district Near West Side of Jane Addams founded the recently in a London which -Visit Toynbee Hall had met and been inspired by it.
Chicago's population at the time consisted of 3.4 million people. Of these, around 80% were European migrants at the end of the 19th century. Corruption, mafia and cartel building were the order of the day. The consequences were devastating for a large part of the population: Unhealthy living, huge mountains of waste, toxic drinking water, spoiled food, diseases (smallpox, typhus, ...), bad air and extreme noise in factories, high infant mortality, general malnutrition, unemployment, alcoholism, lack of opportunities to participate in educational processes, etc. These problems were the basis for Jane Addams' work.
When Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr opened Hull House on Halsted Street in 1889, their goals were moderate. They wanted to offer a place as a meeting point for less wealthy people in the neighborhood of immigrants to bring them closer to art and literature. However, the house quickly developed beyond their expectations and they began to offer lessons in English at the request of their neighbors so that they could integrate more quickly. Cooking and sewing classes and handicrafts soon followed, along with American history, government, and law. Added to this is the establishment of the Working People's Social Science Club and the establishment of trade unions. Thus the knowledge arising there “u. a. the basis for socio-political advances against the government, the sanitary department, for legislation against child labor ”. The activities of the Hull House also extended to the supervision of the garbage collection in the settlement, support of strikes, the establishment of public bathhouses, mediation efforts in labor disputes and lectures at universities.
In the meantime it had become a settlement, a "settlement". Men and women could now live here for a low rent. In return, they took on services in the public kitchen or the baths, supervision in the playground or in the toddler or kindergarten group. They received influential support from William James and John Dewey , who conducted his social studies here and tried out “learning by doing” on the children.
Hull House became not only a cultural center with music and theater performances, but also a safe haven for immigrants in Chicago's near West Side. Here they found company and the support they needed for a life in a modern city in the “New World”. However, the change and criticism of the prevailing early capitalist conditions were in the foreground, which is why it became the target of police raids, CSI surveillance (from 1915) and donation cuts.
The Hull House was understood not only as a center of neighborhood help and adult education for the predominantly Italian-speaking neighborhood population, but also as a social science research facility. It is now affiliated with the University of Illinois .
The house has been a National Historic Landmark since June 23, 1965 . Hull House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966 .
On January 19, 2012, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that due to financial difficulties, Hull House had to close after 120 years. The Jane Addams Hull House Association offered help of all kinds to 60,000 people a year. One regrets this especially in today's difficult economic situation.
Web links
- Jane Addams Hull House Association
- Jane Addams Hull House Museum
- Urban Experience in Chicago. Hull House and its neighborhoods 1889-1963
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Silvia Staub-Bernasconi, 2007: Social work as action science, p. 54
- ^ Hull House in the museum
- ↑ Silvia Staub Bernasconi, 2007: Social work as action science, p. 49ff
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Illinois. National Park Service , accessed July 22, 2019.
- ^ Hull House on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 11, 2017.
- ^ After 120 years, Jane Addams' Hull House Association to close. (No longer available online.) Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 19, 2012, archived from the original on Nov. 3, 2014 ; accessed on November 3, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
