The presence of Florence Kelley in Hull-House attracted other social reformers to the settlement. Working-class women, such as Kenney and Stevens, who had developed an interest in social reform as a result of their trade union work, played an important role in the education of the middle-class residents at Hull-House. They in turn influenced the working-class women. Florence Kelley and several other women based at Hull-House carried out research into the sweating trade in Chicago and this led to the passing of the pioneering Illinois Factory Act Hull-House gradually expanded to include about a dozen other buildings used for classes and clubs, a nursery school, the only public library in the neighborhood, a playground and one of the first gymnasiums in the country.
Hull-House exists today as a social service agency, with locations around the city of Chicago. The University of Illinois at Chicago has preserved a small part of the buildings as a museum, after the University razed many of the original buildings of Hull-House.
The original Hull mansion remains with much of the furniture used by Miss Addams. South of the original Hull-House is the restored settlement dining hall, one of the first buildings in addition to the main house opened by Jane Addams.
University and community groups for meetings now use the hall. Hull-House Yearbook The Internet Archive. Swarthmore College Peace Collection. She played an important role in many local and national organizations. A founder of the Chicago Federation of Settlements in , she also helped to establish the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers in In addition, she actively supported the campaign for woman suffrage and the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union In the early years of the twentieth century Jane Addams became involved in the peace movement.
During the First World War, she and other women from belligerent and neutral nations met at the International Congress of Women at the Hague in , attempting to stop the war. As a result of her work, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Jane Addams died in Chicago on May 21, She was buried in Cedarville, her childhood home town. Hull-House, Chicago's first social settlement was not only the private home of Jane Addams and other Hull-House residents, but also a place where immigrants of diverse communities gathered to learn, to eat, to debate, and to acquire the tools necessary to put down roots in their new country.
But Addams listened to the needs of her neighbors and worked to understand the challenges they faced. Hull-House soon opened a kindergarten and nursery to help low income working mothers. It held free lectures from university professors and others on topics ranging from history, labor organization, and home economics..
Hull-House quickly became a community center, offering social services, advice, and encouragement to its neighbors. Jane Addams believed that in order to help people, you needed to understand them.
With an upper-class background and college education, she did not share the same experiences as the men and women who lived in her neighborhood. Working with them, instead of for them, Addams used the knowledge gained to work for social change that would improve their lives.
Trust, she said, was crucial in forming bridges between people from entirely different walks of life. Hull-House gave immigrants and workers a safe zone to enjoy cultural events and congregate, and acted as a bridge between the upper class and the lower class. Hull-House also provided immigrants with the tools to navigate a daunting American society. Hull-House helped immigrants understand American culture, how the American government functions, and offered citizenship and English-language classes, which was a unique and extremely valuable skill set to have at the time.
The daughter of an affluent, influential family, she graduated Rockford Female Seminary in an exemplary student and leader. A few years following graduation, Addams took an inspirational trip to England with close friend Ellen Gates Starr, which introduced her to the social philosophy of John Ruskin and to a London settlement house, Toynbee Hall.
Her experience inspired her to open a settlement house in Chicago. The work of Hull House resulted in numerous labor union organizations, a labor museum, tenement codes, factory laws, child labor laws, adult education courses, cultural exchange groups, and the collection of neighborhood demographic data.
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