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Masonic Home for Children is located in Alexandria, Louisiana, United States. It was built in 1925 by Louisiana Masons and added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 1987. The home was closed in 1994 and the 70-acre site remained vacant.
Washington City Orphan Asylum, 1860, Library of Congress. Washington City Orphan Asylum, also called The Protestant Male and Female Orphan Asylum, was an orphanage established in Washington, D.C., for homeless children after the War of 1812. In 1935, it became the Hillcrest Children's Village and was moved to new facilities in the city.
Gilbert Academy was a premier preparatory school for African-American high school students in New Orleans, Louisiana. Begun in 1863 in New Orleans as a home for colored children orphaned by the American Civil War, the home moved to Baldwin, Louisiana, in 1867. The Orphans Home evolved into a school and, over the next 80 years, became Gilbert ...
Building on the campus. The Hutton Settlement is an orphanage institution founded and endowed by mining magnate Levi W. Hutton in 1919. Following much research and a nationwide tour of orphanages for inspiration on the best orphanage design and organizational structure, a settlement on a 111-acre (45 ha) plot was designed to function as a working farm with an administration building and four ...
The building at 733 Euclid Street N.W. was constructed around 1879 in the Second Empire style. [3] It was built as part of the Todd & Brown's Subdivision in the Pleasant Plains neighborhood of Northwest Washington D.C. [3] Originally a duplex, it was converted into one unit by the National Home after it purchased the house. [3]
Plaque where once stood the ruota ("the wheel"), the place to abandon children at the side of the Chiesa della Pietà, the church of an orphanage in Venice.The plaque cites on a Papal bull by Paul III dated 12 November 1548, threatens "excommunication and maledictions" for all those who – having the means to rear a child – choose to abandon him/her instead.