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St Joseph's Orphanage (sometimes known as Mount Street Hospital and other names) is a Grade II listed former orphanage and hospital complex in Preston, Lancashire, England. [1] [2] The complex is located on Theatre Street and Mount Street. [3] The orphanage was constructed and opened in 1872 and a hospital extension was opened in 1877. [4]
St. Joseph's Orphanage is an historic former orphanage and school located at 56 St. Joseph Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. The orphanage was built in 1892 as part of the parish of Notre Dame de Lourdes, a large French-Canadian congregation located in the city's Flint Village neighborhood. [2] Two large wings were added about 1917.
The largest structure is the Old St. Joseph Orphanage and School, which stands three stories tall, and is built of rubble with a dormered gable roof. [2] Nearby is a cemetery holding the graves of missionaries Father Gerhard Terhorst , Monsignor Melchior Faust , Father John Henn , and Father Anthony Vermare .
St. Joseph's opened in 1854 in a former tavern. Staffed by the Sisters of Providence from Montreal, it initially housed fifty-eight orphans. St. Joseph's closed in 1974. In the 1990s, the Diocese of Burlington was sued by former residents of St. Joseph's Orphanage, claiming abuse by the staff.
St Joseph's Orphanage, also known as St Joseph's Boys' Home, run by the Sisters of Nazareth, had opened there, with accommodation for 100 boys, in 1921. [ 2 ] Marylands opened on 21 August 1955 in the presence of 5000 people [ 3 ] including Prime Minister Sidney Holland , [ 4 ] the mayor of Christchurch, Mr. R. M. McFarlane and several high ...
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After the war, Sister Mary Gonzaga continued running the St. Joseph's orphanage. She marked her fiftieth year in religious life there in 1877. [8] She was blind in her last years and broke her hip in 1896. [1] She was said to be the oldest living member of the Sisters of Charity before she died at St. Joseph's on October 8, 1897, aged 85 years.
In 1993, several former residents of the St Joseph's Orphanage at Neerkol, 19 kilometres west of Rockhampton, came forward to the Catholic Church and the Queensland Police Service to report allegations of sexual and physical abuse that they were subject to during their time at the orphanage as children. This was following the publication of a ...