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Hull House , Chicago Illinois

Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr 's work of architecture spree beautifully designed and of scholarly taste , artistic designs and with the flavor of social touch and as said by Regina Buccola the vanguard of the world wide settlement House movement , was dawned in 1889 as Hull House . It was first among the few settlement houses with uniqueness lying in its spearheading a national movement making the path for the establishment of five hundred more settlements by 1920 . Addam 's efforts earned it as one of the most

reputed settlement houses in the United States . Hull House became a landmark piece more as a political and social intrigue instead of architectural . The complex was a dream of Addams to make it a place for the social and economic emancipation of women . She was from the prosperous family and was very well conscious of her position as among the few of the first generation of women getting opportunity for education . Hull House was part of her passionate appeal to bring the women at the front , and give them liberty to assert their thought process . Hull House was primarily run by women , although men were also involved in it as well . In its vicinity , women found liberated from subjugation while giving them lots of opportunities in the public sphere

Many of the buildings of Hull House were designed by architect Allen Pond taking the inspiration and idea from the Gothic architecture of Toynbee . While looking at the interior...