settlement house
noun
: an institution providing various community services especially to large city populations
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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.
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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
Karamu’s origins go back to 1915 when it was founded as a settlement house.
—Joey Morona, cleveland, 14 July 2023
In the statement issued on Sunday, Jordan and the United States said that Israel had committed not to discuss the construction of new settlement houses for a period of four months, and not to authorize any new settlement outposts for a period of six months.
—Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023
Despite its leaky roof and gutted interior marred by vandals, a neighboring Gary church wants to transform the old settlement house, first established by Methodist women, into a vibrant community center.
—Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2021
Walker also donated money to philanthropic organizations, including the St. Louis Colored Orphans’ Home and the Flanner Settlement House in Indianapolis, which became the first settlement house for Black people in the city.
—Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 29 Aug. 2022
Friendship House was a settlement house, one of many that popped up across the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
—Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2022
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
Karamu’s origins go back to 1915 when it was founded as a settlement house.
—Joey Morona, cleveland, 14 July 2023
In the statement issued on Sunday, Jordan and the United States said that Israel had committed not to discuss the construction of new settlement houses for a period of four months, and not to authorize any new settlement outposts for a period of six months.
—Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023
Despite its leaky roof and gutted interior marred by vandals, a neighboring Gary church wants to transform the old settlement house, first established by Methodist women, into a vibrant community center.
—Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2021
Walker also donated money to philanthropic organizations, including the St. Louis Colored Orphans’ Home and the Flanner Settlement House in Indianapolis, which became the first settlement house for Black people in the city.
—Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 29 Aug. 2022
Friendship House was a settlement house, one of many that popped up across the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
—Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2022
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1907, in the meaning defined above
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settlement house
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: an institution providing various community services to people in a crowded part of a city
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