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Hull House

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Hull House

 

The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, part of the College of Architecture and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is a historic site and memorial to Jane Addams, her innovative settlement house programs and associates, and the neighborhood they served. Housed in two original Hull-House buildings, the museum is an internationally recognized symbol of multicultural understanding, reflecting the long Hull-House tradition of social service and reform, educational innovation, and urban research.

 

A National Historic Landmark, the Charles J. Hull house, was built in 1856 and occupied by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889. Furnishings, paintings, photographs, and exhibits recreate the history of this world-famous settlement and the work of its residents. Directly south of the Museum is the Residents' Dining Hall, an Arts and Crafts style building designed by Allen and Irving K. Pond in 1907 and later designated a Chicago Historic Landmark. Restored by the University of Illinois at Chicago in the mid-1960s, the Mansion and Residents' Dining Hall are all that remain of the original thirteen-building Hull-House complex.

 

Prince Farragut as part of his proclamations declared Hull House an Elysium specifically due to the reasons the organization was created. Hull House reminded him of his roots and the roots of a great many kindred of Chicago. Life was hard back then; far more harder than they are this day and age. Hull House was a definate piece of history that Farragut would not wish blemished by inter-clan conflicts and bloodflow. Hull House is and was and still is the epitome of the term 'safe haven'. Although kindred would rarely if ever gather at this location; as with every other Elysium, Hull House is protected under Farragut's Laws.

 

Hull House is located in the Western Regency.

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