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The Hiram House was the first
Hiram House was founded by students from Hiram College who had been studying settlement work. In June 1896, the students rented a house near the Whiskey Island area of Cleveland, which was predominantly populated by Irish immigrants at that time. George Bellamy joined the group, which shortly thereafter moved the settlement house to a site on Orange Avenue, in what was then the city's main Jewish neighborhood. Hiram House was incorporated in 1899, and within a year had raised enough funds to construct a new four-story building, which served until 1941. Financial support came from the Mather, Prentiss, and Hunt families.
Hiram House initially offered English classes for immigrants to assist in passing the exams for citizenship. With the new building came college preparatory courses, a kindergarten, a summer camp, and various clubs and other recreational activities. Among the teachers at Hiram House in 1900 was Louise Brigham, who later became known for designing furniture out of packing crates.
The Hiram House Camp, located on a site in the nearby
Hiram House
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The Hiram House was the first settlement house
The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in United Kingdom and the United States. Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and s ...
in Cleveland and one of the first in the United States
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. It was founded in 1896 by George A. Bellamy and students from Hiram College
Hiram College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Hiram, Ohio. It was founded in 1850 as the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute by Amos Sutton Hayden and other members of the Disciples of Christ Church. The college is nonsectarian and coe ...
.
History
Hiram House was founded by students from Hiram College who had been studying settlement work. In June 1896, the students rented a house near the Whiskey Island area of Cleveland, which was predominantly populated by Irish immigrants at that time. George Bellamy joined the group, which shortly thereafter moved the settlement house to a site on Orange Avenue, in what was then the city's main Jewish neighborhood. Hiram House was incorporated in 1899, and within a year had raised enough funds to construct a new four-story building, which served until 1941. Financial support came from the Mather, Prentiss, and Hunt families.
Hiram House initially offered English classes for immigrants to assist in passing the exams for citizenship. With the new building came college preparatory courses, a kindergarten, a summer camp, and various clubs and other recreational activities. Among the teachers at Hiram House in 1900 was Louise Brigham, who later became known for designing furniture out of packing crates.
The Hiram House Camp, located on a site in the nearby Chagrin River
The Chagrin River is located in Northeast Ohio. The river has two branches, the Aurora Branch and East Branch. Of three hypotheses as to the origin of the name, the most probable is that it is a corruption of the name of a Frenchman, Sieur de Segu ...
Valley village of Moreland Hills, was donated in 1902. The organization has operated a summer camp continuously since 1897.
References
Further reading
* Grabowski, John J. "A Social Settlement in a Neighborhood in Transition, Hiram House, Cleveland, Ohio, 1896-1926" (Ph.D. diss., CWRU, 1977) * Hiram House Records,Western Reserve Historical Society
The Western Reserve Historical Society (WRHS) is a historical society in Cleveland, Ohio. The society operates the Cleveland History Center, a collection of museums in University Circle.
The society was founded in 1867, making it the oldest cul ...
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Hiram House
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