Mission Addams followed the example of Toynbee Hall, which was founded in 1884 in the East End of London as a center for social reform. She described Toynbee Hall as "a community of university men" who, while living there, held their recreational clubs and social gatherings at the settlement house among the poor people and in the same style they would in their own circle.Polikoff, Barbara Garland. With One Bold Act : The Story of Jane Addams, p. 55, New York: Boswell Books, 1999. Addams and Starr established Hull House as a settlement house on September 18, 1889.
Mission Addams foll:owed the example of Toynbee Hall which was founded in 1884 in the East End of London as a center for social reform. She described Toynbee Hall as "a community of university men" who, while living there, held their r,ecreational clubs and social gatherings at the settlement house among the poor people and in the same style they would in their own circle.Polikoff, Barbara Garland. With One Bold Act  The Story of Jane Addams, p. 55, New York: Boswell Books, 1999. Addams and Starr established Hull House as a settlement house on September 18, 1889.