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A wood engraving representing the NY House of Refuge in 1855. The New York House of Refuge was the first juvenile reformatory established in the United States. [1] It opened in 1824 on the Bowery in Manhattan, New York City [2] and was destroyed by a fire in 1839, before being relocated first to Twenty-Third Street and then, in 1854, to Randalls Island.
The House of Refuge at Gilbert's Bar, also known as Gilbert's Bar House of Refuge, the House of Refuge Museum, or simply the House of Refuge, is a historic building located at 301 S.E. MacArthur Boulevard, on Hutchinson Island east of Stuart, Florida. It is the oldest surviving building in Martin County.
The Biscayne House of Refuge between 1915, when it became a United States Coast Guard station, and 1926, when it was badly damaged in the Great Miami Hurricane. The dormer was probably added after 1915. The original attic only had windows at the gable ends. Biscayne, House of Refuge No. 5 (), was at what is now 72nd Street on Miami Beach ...
The Western House of Refuge was a prison for children in Rochester, New York founded in the mid-1800's that was the first state managed reformatory in the United States. In the 1880's, the prison was changed into a vocational school known as the State Industrial School .
Randalls Island housed an almshouse (opened 1845), a children's hospital (opened 1848), the Idiot Asylum, [55] [56] and the New York House of Refuge reformatory. [48] [62] Maps from the 1850s show two hospital complexes on Randalls Island. [58] Meanwhile, Wards Island was used by the State Emigrant Refuge and the New York City Asylum for the ...
Tyler Perry is spotlighting a lesser-known piece of World War II history in his new Netflix film, The Six Triple Eight. Based on a WWII History Magazine article by Kevin M. Hymel, the film, out ...
Here, a brief history of Winfield House, the "official residence of the Ambassador of the United States of America to the Court of St. James’s." St. Dunstan's Villa was built in 1825. Plan of ...
The Glen Mills Schools was the oldest surviving school of its type in the United States, continuously providing services to troubled youth for almost 200 years. [2] The institution was founded in 1826 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the Philadelphia House of Refuge.