{"nrhp_refnum":"66000315","name":"Hull House","other_names":["Jane Addams' Hull House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"800 S. Halsted St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.871682468000074,"lon":-87.64733532099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1965-06-23","areas_of_significance":["Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Jane Addams' Hull-House at 800 South Halsted Street, Chicago, is a museum complex made up of the 1856 Hull mansion and the 1905 Residents' Dining Hall, both owned by the University of Illinois. It is a National Historic Landmark.","why_significant":"The nomination ties the property to Jane Addams, who founded the Hull-House settlement in 1889 and ran it until her death in 1935. The settlement answered the needs of its immigrant neighbors and earned an international reputation. The mansion and the Dining Hall are the only surviving buildings of the settlement complex.","narrative":"Hull-House is a museum complex on the University of Illinois Chicago campus. It consists of an 1856 Italianate mansion built for Charles Hull and a 1905 Residents' Dining Hall. Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr moved into the mansion in 1889 and turned it into a settlement house serving a crowded immigrant neighborhood. The programs grew to include kindergarten and night classes, a day nursery, clubs, an employment bureau and a penny savings bank. At its height the settlement filled a block of 13 buildings, designed largely by Irving K. and Allen Pond. When the university built its campus in the early 1960s, nearly all of them were demolished. The mansion was restored on the outside to its 1856 look and on the inside to Addams' period, and the Dining Hall was moved and re-faced in brick. The two buildings are listed because of their link to Addams' social reform work and her international reputation.","period_of_significance":"1889-1935","architect_builder":"Unknown for the original 1856 mansion; the twelve additional settlement buildings were designed by Irving K. Pond and Allen Pond.","architectural_style":"Italianate house of about 1850 (exterior restored); interior restored to the Victorian period of Jane Addams' occupancy.","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and used as a museum and for education; the mansion was restored in 1964-66 and the Dining Hall was moved in 1963.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:34.965107-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/96/8915/28891596/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/66000315_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000315/789a1cf902-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000315/789a1cf902-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"User talk:Hied5","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UIC_Hull_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">User talk:Hied5</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UIC_Hull_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891596","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1582905"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/hull-house-66000315/"}