About Addams, Jane Addams Elementary School

Jane Addams Elementary was known as Gallistel School when the city of Chicago acquired it as part of the 1889 annexation of Hyde Park.  Located at 104^th & Ewing Avenue, the building itself was relocated almost immediately to make room for the construction of a new Gallistel School on the original site.  Meanwhile, the old school building, now at 110^th & Green Bay Avenue, became a Branch of Gallistel School.  By August of 1928, entropy had caught up with the old building: the walls threatened collapse at any moment.  Thus, the building was razed, and portables were erected in its place for the first day of school in September of 1928.  On September 6, 1948, the Jane Addams Elementary School opened in a new building at 10810 South Avenue H as a Branch of Gallistel, thus making the decades-old portables obsolete.  On January 31, 1949, Jane Addams became an independent school.  Adams has undergone several other large-scale improvements over the years, including a 1996 annex to remedy overcrowding and the addition of a campus park in 1998.  Addams Elementary still serves its students at the same 10810 South Avenue H location today.

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