settlement house
noun
: an institution providing various community services especially to large city populations
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The settlement house movement is more than 130 years old and was the original wrap-around service.
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Rich Baum, New York Daily News, 23 June 2024
When waves of European immigrants started arriving in New York in the late 1800s, the city’s philanthropists banded together to create settlement houses, which provided social services and offered insights for the local government about how best to handle migrants.
—Eliza Shapiro, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
And its productions also traveled to prisons, reformatories, settlement houses and psychiatric hospitals.
—Adam Hochschild, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
After graduating from college in 1919, Liebes studied weaving at Chicago’s Hull-House, a settlement house co-founded by reformers Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr that hosted practical and artistic classes.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2023
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Rich Baum, New York Daily News, 23 June 2024
When waves of European immigrants started arriving in New York in the late 1800s, the city’s philanthropists banded together to create settlement houses, which provided social services and offered insights for the local government about how best to handle migrants.
—Eliza Shapiro, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
And its productions also traveled to prisons, reformatories, settlement houses and psychiatric hospitals.
—Adam Hochschild, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
After graduating from college in 1919, Liebes studied weaving at Chicago’s Hull-House, a settlement house co-founded by reformers Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr that hosted practical and artistic classes.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2023
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“Settlement house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/settlement%20house. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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