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The Johnson County Poor Farm and Asylum Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. [ 1 ]
Eastern side of 232nd Ave., 255 feet south-west of its junction with 180th St. Andrew: Limestone house, barn and carpenter shop 18: John S. Dominy House: John S. Dominy House: July 24, 1992 : 605 Pearl St.
In 1854, using the state funding, the Daughters of Charity began expanding in Buffalo, founding St. Mary's Infant Asylum and Maternity Hospital at Elmwood and Edward Streets. It served nearly entirely orphans and unwed mothers, leaving the main hospital more space for the average ill person. It closed in 1951. [15]
Dorchester in Allamakee County, Iowa, in 1903. Dorchester was platted in 1873. [7] Dorchester's population was 56 in 1902, [8] and 90 in 1925. [9] The population was 102 in 1940. [10] Dorchester's location in the flood plain of the Upper Iowa River makes it vulnerable to
Adam Strasser and Frank Schlecht were contractors from Bellevue, Iowa who were responsible for its construction, as was local stonemason John Weis. The other 19th-century buildings from the poor farm have been removed, and replaced by the county care facility across the highway. This building is now part of a demonstration farm.
St. Marys or Saint Marys [2] is a city in Warren County, Iowa, United States. The population was 108 at the time of the 2020 census. [3] St. Marys is part of the Des Moines–West Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area.
By 1884, the Daughters of Charity in Buffalo ran four hospitals: Sisters of Charity hospital for the sick, St. Mary's Infant Asylum and Maternity Hospital for orphans and unwed mothers, Providence Retreat for the mentally ill and Emergency Hospital, which opened in 1884. [15] The Diocese of Buffalo took possession of Emergency Hospital in 1954.
In March 1876 the Iowa legislature designated the grounds of the former Glenwood Orphan's Home as the location for the first Iowa Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children. Canadian immigrant Dr. O.W. Archibald was appointed the first medical superintendent and the facility opened on September 1. Archibald's 1877 Annual Report listed 85 children and ...