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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.
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]
In light of this, in 1931, the orphanage was closed and the facility was transformed into foster care agency overseen by Richmond's branch of the Children's Aid Society. [6] In 1932 the name was changed to the Friends' Association for Colored Children and in 1938, the organization expanded to include adoption services.
In addition to practicing as a physician for nearly 20 years at the Colored Orphan Asylum in Manhattan, Smith was a public intellectual: he contributed articles to medical journals, participated in learned societies, and wrote numerous essays and articles drawing from his medical and statistical training. He used his training in medicine and ...
From 1911 to 1912, Mahoney served as director of the Howard Colored Orphan Asylum for Black children in Kings Park, Long Island, New York. [14] [2] The asylum served as a home for freed colored children and the colored elderly. This institution was run by African Americans.
Lucy Goode Brooks (September 13, 1818 – October 7, 1900) was an enslaved American woman who later became instrumental in the founding of the Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans in Richmond, Virginia.
In 1883 a Black Catholic mission parish named after St. Benedict the Moor was established, based on a $5,000 bequest by Fr Thomas Farrell to serve the African-American community in Lower Manhattan; his will and testament specified that if the Catholic Church was unable to spend funds for this purpose, it would instead go to the Protestant Colored Orphan Asylum.
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]