Jane Addams visited Toynbee House while on vacation in Europe. This inspired her to open a settlement house in Chicago in 1889 called Hull House.
Jane Addams founded Hull House with a college friend named Ellen Gates Starr.
The Hull House was a run-down mansion and Jane used her own money to pay for many capital costs in the beginning. As time went on more donors helped with the settlement house, enabling it to expand its services.
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The Hull House provided services to the poor people and immigrants in Chicago's region.
Jane Addams and Ellen Starr were the first two residents of Hull House. Eventually 25 women lived there and when operating at its peak there were a