Hull House
- Architect
- Pond and Pond
- Year
- 1856
- Style
- Italianate
- City
- Chicago, IL
Hull House began in 1856 as an Italianate house built for Charles Jerald Hull, whose name it kept. In 1889, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr founded their settlement house there on Chicago's Near West Side to serve recently arrived European immigrants. It became the model for the American settlement house movement, growing to 13 buildings by 1911 and helping inspire roughly 500 settlement houses nationwide by 1920.
the building
What survives today. Most of the original 13-building Hull House complex was demolished in the mid-1960s to make way for the University of Illinois Chicago campus. Only the original house and one other building — a community refectory and meeting hall later moved about 200 yards — remain standing today.
the style
The surviving Hull House building is an example of Italianate design, the style in which the original 1856 house was constructed before its second life as a settlement house.
More on Italianatesignificance
Hull House was designated a National Historic Landmark on June 23, 1965, and is also a Chicago Landmark and a National Register of Historic Places listing — protections that preserved the original house and its relocated meeting hall even as the rest of the complex was torn down for UIC.
nearby
- International Tailoring Company Building
- St Ignatius College Prep Building
- Holy Family Catholic Church
- Jennie Foley Building
- Old Chicago Main Post Office Building
- Old St. Patrick's Church