Johns Hopkins University students are working to uncover details about the lives of African American girls who lived at an orphanage once located where the Wyman Park Building now stands, near the ...

In the late 1800s, orphaned Black girls found a new home at St. John Berchman’s Asylum for Girls, named for the patron saint ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Bethlehem Orphan and Half Orphan Asylum was a Lutheran project on the Grasmere hillside just along Fingerboard Road near the now Staten Island Expressway. According to the ...

In 1878, a group of German Jewish philanthropists gathered at Temple Beth Elohim on Keap Street to do something to protect and shelter Jewish orphans. Before that time, Brooklyn’s Jewish orphans were ...

Located approximately where Chase Elementary School is now situated, the St. Joseph Orphan Asylum housed hundreds of children at a time when many parents succumbed to disease, treacherous working ...

There was an orphanage somewhere around State Street Uptown that may have been the German Lutheran Home. Do you have any information about its history? Christel Dear Christel, The German Protestant ...

In a report of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Miss E. Ferderber of the Child Placement department announced that more than 780 orphans have been placed in homes so far this year. The children are ...

Beginning in the 1920s, that building on S. Carrollton Avenue served as a home for orphans and at-risk or disadvantaged youth. It is known as the Waldo Burton Memorial Home. Its roots date to 1824 and ...

The Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum’s expenditures during the last fiscal year exceeded receipts by more than $40,000, it was reported yesterday by Judge Algeron I. Nova, president of the institution, ...