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The Colored Orphan Asylum was an institution in New York City, open from 1836 to 1946. It housed on average four hundred children annually and was mostly managed by women. [ 1 ] Its first location was on Fifth Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan , a four-story building with two wings.
St. Louis Colored Orphans Home is a historic orphanage for Black orphans and building in The Ville neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.. It has been known as the Annie Malone Children and Family Service Center since 1946. It serves as a shelter for children who need a temporary home and a counseling center for families in crisis.
Photograph of Howard Orphanage and Industrial School ca. 1915. The Howard Colored Orphan Asylum was one of the few orphanages to be led by and for African Americans. [1] It was located on Troy Avenue and Dean Street in Weeksville, a historically black settlement in what is now Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City. [2]
The building's location was authorized by the city council in 1867, and the orphanage opened two years later. [1] Lucy Goode Brooks was instrumental in its establishment. [2] [3] It was incorporated in 1872 by the Society of Friends who had raised US$6,250 to erect a building on the corner of St. Paul and Charity streets.
The West Jersey Colored Orphanage was an orphanage that operated from 1874 to the early 1920s. [1] It operated at the corner of 6th and Mechanic Street in the Bergen Square neighborhood of Camden, New Jersey. [1] It was replaced in the early 1920s by the Hunton Branch YMCA (later South Camden YMCA). [1]
It was then renamed the West Virginia Colored Orphans Home. [5] The school building burned down on April 5, 1920 and a new building was constructed between 1922 and 1923. A separate institution, the State Industrial Home for Colored Girls, was established in a building constructed on the property between 1924 and 1926, also of three stories. [2]
RiverSpring Living was founded in 1917 as the Hebrew Home, a Jewish organization based in a synagogue focused on helping homeless older adults. [4] [5] [6] In 1951, it acquired a 19-acre Riverdale site, which was the former Riverdale Children's Association and before that the Colored Orphan Asylum. [1]
Mitchell was a founder of the Colored Orphans Industrial Home in Lexington, Kentucky. One of the 15 local black women listed as the board of directors in the incorporation filed in Sept 1892, she was elected board president. Originally the institution was a home for elderly African American women without family to care for them.