settlement house
noun
: an institution providing various community services especially to large city populations
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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.
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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
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
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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
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
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“Settlement house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/settlement%20house. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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