Specialties

• Settlement house for recent European immigrants.
• Provided social and educational opportunities for working-class people.
• Prominent women jewelers Madeline Yale Wynn, Jessie Preston, Elinor Klapp, and Florence Koehler started out at Hull House.

Founders

• Jane Addams
• Ellen Gates Starr

Hull House Shops

Instructors at Hull House 1898-1925

• George Twose – Manager
• Frank Caruso – Wood inlaid with Metal, 1904
• Alessandro G. Colarossi – Metalwork & Enamel 1902-1905
• Annibale Fogliata – Metalwork & Enamel 1904-1905
• Isadore V. Friedman – Metalwork, Silver, & Enamel 1903-1905 and 1912-1917
• Frances G. Higginson – Metalwork 1989-1899
• Frank Hazenplug – Design & Metalwork 1903-1910
• Jessie Luther – Metalwork 1901-1902
• Walter Martin – Metalwork 1925
• Falick Novick – Metalwork c.1909-1912
• Julius O. Randahl – Silversmith c.1916-1917
• Miss Vail – Metalwork & Summer School 1903

Chicago Arts & Crafts Society Labor Museum

• Residents practiced old-country crafts.