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St. Vincent Orphanage, for girls, was opened in 1832 in Louisville, Kentucky, by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. [1] It was first located at 443 South 5th Street until 1836, then moved to the corner of Wenzel and Jefferson Streets from 1836 to 1892, the present site of Bellarmine University from 1892 to 1901, [2] and 2120 Payne Street to 1955, the year of the merger with St. Thomas Orphanage.
They established St. John's Infirmary (the predecessor of St. Mary's Hospital) and St. Rose's Orphanage for Girls, both on the east side. [2] In 1877 the Sisters opened the initial St. Vincent's Asylum, with three nuns caring for nine infants in a rented house on the corner of South Fifth and West Virginia Streets. [2]
The Hospital of St. Vincent DePaul was incorporated in 1856 by eight Daughters of Charity during the yellow fever epidemic. The Sisters of the Daughters of Charity came to Norfolk in 1839 to run St. Mary's Orphan Asylum and care for the sick and dying during the yellow fever epidemic in Norfolk. [2] [3]
In 1825, Matthews founded the St. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum near St. Patrick's Church in Washington. [67] He had requested that several nuns of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in Emitsburg go to Washington to care for the orphaned girls of the city.
By March 1843, the Great and General Court granted them a charter as the St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum. [5] [4] It was the first Chatolic charitable organization in the state. [5] The Asylum cared for girls between 3 and 10 without regard to their religion. [5] Shorb ran the Asylum for the next 40 years. [5]
The Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati became an independent diocesan order. Soon after foundation of the diocesan community, the Sisters opened St. Vincent's Asylum for Boys. [6] [7] In 1854 the Sisters founded Mount St. Vincent's Academy, Cedar Grove, Price Hill, which later became Seton High School. A mission in Dayton, Ohio, was established ...
She founded Nazareth Academy (1814), St. Vincent's Academy (1820), St. Catherine's Academy in Lexington, Kentucky (1823), Presentation Academy (1831), St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum (1832), St. Joseph's Hospital (1836), and St. Francis' School at Owensboro, Kentucky (1850). Spalding University in Louisville is named after Spalding. The Spalding ...
English: View of the former Saint Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum on Ellicott Street, Buffalo, New York, April 2020. Built in 1899 to a design by the firm of Green & Wicks, the design is an eclectic one, incorporating elements of the Italianate style but with different window treatments on each story: simple rectangular ones on the basement and top floors, wide segmental arches spanning entire ...