settlement house
noun
: an institution providing various community services especially to large city populations
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Gordon’s seven cases range from the late-nineteenth-century settlement house movement, which sought to alleviate poverty and inequality, to the twentieth-century struggle for women’s liberation, the largest social movement in American history.
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Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
These functioned both as settlement houses, providing resources to working-class people in their neighborhoods, and as gathering spots where middle-class Black and white people socialized together.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 10 Jan. 2025
The museum is located in two of the original settlement house buildings—the Hull Home, a National Historic Landmark; and the Residents’ Dining Hall, a beautiful Arts and Crafts building that has welcomed some of the world’s most important thinkers, artists, and activists.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
The settlement house movement is more than 130 years old and was the original wrap-around service.
—Rich Baum, New York Daily News, 23 June 2024
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Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
These functioned both as settlement houses, providing resources to working-class people in their neighborhoods, and as gathering spots where middle-class Black and white people socialized together.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 10 Jan. 2025
The museum is located in two of the original settlement house buildings—the Hull Home, a National Historic Landmark; and the Residents’ Dining Hall, a beautiful Arts and Crafts building that has welcomed some of the world’s most important thinkers, artists, and activists.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
The settlement house movement is more than 130 years old and was the original wrap-around service.
—Rich Baum, New York Daily News, 23 June 2024
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“Settlement house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/settlement%20house. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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