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Brisbane, Queensland: Designed ... Greek Revival architecture; housed the Odd Fellows Orphanage from 1907 to 1944. [21] [22] ... 3640 Whittier Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90023
February 23 – Cavan Orphanage fire, ... in Los Angeles, ... March 18 – Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub in Brisbane, Queensland, was firebombed, ...
Orphanage board and staff members attempted to dissuade authorities from sending orphans to camp without success. [9] [11] Col. Karl R. Bendetsen, "determined that if they have one drop of Japanese blood in them, they must all go to camp," [5] [12] gave the order to begin removing children from orphanages on April 28, 1942. [9]
St. Mary's Orphanage & Day School – Kolkata, West Bengal (est. 1848) St. Michael's High School – Patna, Bihar (Christian Brothers left in 1968; became a Jesuit school) St. Patrick's Higher Secondary School – Asansol, West Bengal (est. 1877 as a Jesuit scholasticate; became a Christian Brothers school in 1890) St. Peter's School ...
Mount Saint Mary's Convent and Academy, originally the Sacred Heart Convent and Holy Angels Orphanage and previously Mount St. Mary's Convent and Orphan Asylum, and also known as Mount Saint Mary's Academy and Convent, is the only extant original orphanage in California and commemorates the Sisters of Mercy, in Grass Valley, Nevada County, California.
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Within two years, the orphanage was caring for about 100 children and received a government subsidy. In 1882, a 20-acre (8.1 ha) block of land on Ipswich Road at Woolloongabba was purchased to allow the construction of a larger facility. In 1883 the Diamantina Orphanage opened at this new location and by 1886 was caring for more than 350 children.
In 1889, at the suggestion of Pope Leo XIII, the sisters came to New York, and opened convents in the archdioceses of Chicago, Denver, Newark, Seattle, and Los Angeles and the dioceses of Brooklyn and Scranton. [3] In 1892 they established Columbus Hospital in New York City, [4] which later became Cabrini Medical Center and operated until 2008.