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Antecedents
St. John's Home for Boys, Brooklyn, NY, c1909
Brooklyn Public Library Digital Collections
The Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum Society of Brooklyn was established in the 1830s. By the 1890s, the Society's old Saint John's Orphan Asylum for Boys in Crown Heights had grown, but with more than 900 young residents, once again it was at capacity. For reasons similar to those just discussed, it had been renamed simply St. John's Home for Boys.
Similarly, the Society's flagship facility in Queens was by then called St. Joseph's Home for Girls. Somewhat smaller, it still could house well over 600 children.
Joseph's Home for Girls, Flushing, NY, c1910
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