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Originally known as St. Mary's Training School for Boys, the facility was the vision of Chicago archbishop Patrick A. Feehan and served as an orphanage for many decades. . Following a rebuild after a massive fire in 1899, St. Mary's new director, Reverend James Doran, opened the facility to girls in an effort to reunite orphaned brothers and s
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.
The Saint Mary's Orphan Asylum housed at that time 93 children (ages 2 to 13) and 10 sisters. The hurricane arrived quietly on September 7, 1900. The full force of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 would not be felt until the next day, September 8 and began to erode away the sand dunes that surrounded St. Mary's Orphanage.
In 1889, Archbishop Gross approved construction of St. Mary's Orphanage in Beaverton, Oregon and asked the Sisters to staff it. By June 1891, three Sisters were serving in Sublimity, three were serving in Verboort, Oregon, and all of the other Sisters had moved to Beaverton. The Sisters lived at the orphanage where they cared for sixty children ...
The transaction took place in 1936 upon Mattison's death; [1] the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth were the purchasers, and they converted the mansion into an orphanage called St. Mary's, which became St. Mary's Villa for Children and Families, and then St. Mary's Villa. [2] By then, the once-400-acre estate had been reduced to 50 acres.
The Angel Guardian Home for Little Children was founded in 1899 [1] by the Sisters of Mercy [2] as a sister facility to the order's other New York orphanage, St. Mary's of the Angels Home, which had opened five years earlier in Syosset, New York.
In 1884, the euphemistically named St. Mary's Orphanage, was gazetted as St Mary's Industrial School with Dean William Mahoney as Manager. This industrial school was a privately run, Roman Catholic, reform school led by Mr Murphy with a staff of secular teachers and attendants. [1]
St. Mary's School and Asylum was a Catholic girls' school and orphanage in Dedham, Massachusetts. In 1866 the Sisters of Charity founded the St. Mary's School and Asylum at what was formerly the Norfolk House . [ 1 ]