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Boys Town was founded on December 12, 1917, [1] as an orphanage for boys. Originally known as "The City of Little Men", the organization was begun by Edward J. Flanagan, a Roman Catholic priest, while he worked in the Diocese of Omaha. Using a loan of $90, he first rented a home at 25th and Dodge streets, in Omaha, to care for five boys, the ...
North American fraternity and sorority housing. North American fraternity and sorority housing refers largely to the houses or housing areas in which fraternity and sorority members live and work together. In addition to serving as housing, fraternity and sorority housing may also serve to host social gatherings, meetings, and functions that ...
Connie Maxwell Children's Home is a Baptist-church run residential group home headquartered in Greenwood, South Carolina, United States. [1] Since 1892, [2] Connie Maxwell Children’s Home has cared for and supported thousands of children and families. With 4 locations across South Carolina, [3] this ministry becomes a family to those who need ...
Washington City Orphan Asylum. Categories: Orphanages by country. Residential buildings in the United States. Child welfare in the United States. Child-related organizations in the United States. Orphanages in North America. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
American Indian boarding schools, also known more recently as American Indian residential schools, were established in the United States from the mid-17th to the early 20th centuries with a primary objective of "civilizing" or assimilating Native American children and youth into Anglo-American culture. In the process, these schools denigrated ...
Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children. Sunrise Children's Services (or Sunrise) is a nonprofit organization based in Kentucky. [1] It is the state's largest provider of services to children in crisis. [1] Its services include providing homes to abused, abandoned, or neglected children. Sunrise is owned and operated by the Kentucky Baptist ...
Known as America’s largest home, the Biltmore in Asheville, North Carolina, was built for George Vanderbilt and his family in the late 1800s. The 250-room castle is set on 8,000 acres and has a ...
The first residential chapter home, built by a fraternity, is believed to have been Alpha Delta Phi's chapter at Cornell University, with groundbreaking dated to 1878. [11] Alpha Tau Omega became the first fraternity to own a residential house in the South when, in 1880, its chapter at the University of the South acquired one. [12]