Children's Homes and Institutions in New Jersey, USA
(With foundation date, operator, number of Male/Female places, age for admission, and type of children received, where known.)
- St Anthony's Orphan Asylum, Passaic and Midland Avenues, Arlington
(1900; Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart; Orphan and destitute girls; 78F) - Children's Sea-Shore Home, Annapolis and Atlantic Avenues, Atlantic City
(1872; Private corporation; Debilitated or diseased indigent city children; 9M/7F) - Camden Home for Friendless Children, Haddon Avenue, Camden
(1865; Private corporation; Needy children; 34M/22F) - West Jersey Orphanage, Sixth and Mechanic Streets, Camden
(1874; Private corporation; Orphan and destitute children) - Orphan Home, 197 Harrison Street, East Orange
(1854; Private corporation; Orphan and destitute children; 36M/30F) - Elizabeth Orphan Asylum, 41 Cherry Street, Elizabeth
(1858; Private corporation; Orphan and destitute children; 32M/33F) - Daisy Fields Home and Hospital for Crippled Children, Central Avenue, Englewood
(1893; Private corporation; Invalid and destitute children; 18M+F) - George Junior Republic, Flemington P.O., Flemington Junction
(1910; George Junior Republic Association of New Jersey; Delinquent, wayward, and truant boys) - St Bernard's School, Gladstone
(1900; Private corporation; Worthy boys of school age) - Bergen County Children's Home, 125 Essex Street, Hackensack
(1900; Bergen County Children's Aid, and S.P.C.C.; Orphan, destitute, and homeless children; 23M/23F) - Receiving Home, 502 Bloomfield Street, Hoboken
(By 1910; United Aid Society and S.P.C.C.) - St Michael's Orphan Asylum, Hopewell Street, Hopewell
(1898; Sisters of St Francis; Homeless, dependent, and abandoned children; 181M/142F) - Children's Home, 134 Glenwood Avenue, Jersey City
(1864; Private corporation; Destitute and friendless children; 25M/10F) - Christian Home for Orphan Children, 178 Magnolia Avenue, Jersey City
(1900; Private corporation; Orphan and destitute children; 35M/31F) - Home of the Homeless, 266 Grove Street, Jersey City
(1883; Private corporation; Orphan and destitute children; 48M+F) - St Mary's Orphan Asylum, 561 Jersey Avenue, Jersey City
(1862; Sisters of Charity; Orphan and neglected girls; 62F) - St Joseph's Orphan Asylum, 81 York Street, Jersey City
(1887; Sisters of St Joseph of Peace; Orphan and abandoned children; 141M/135F) - Orphans' Home of the Children's Friend, 93 Nelson Avenue, Jersey City
(1904; Lutheran Ministerium of New York; Orphan children; 14M/16F) - St Michael's Orphanage, Pavonia Avenue and Erie Street, Jersey City
(1880; Sisters of Charity; Orphan children; 55M/44F) - Catholic Protectory, Arlington P.O., Kearney
(1872; Sisters of Charity; Wayward and destitute boys from 14 to 18; 180M) - Italian Protectory, Harrison P.O., Kearney
(1901; Pallotine Sisters of Charity; Orphan and homeless boys; 75M) - Immaculate Conception Orphanage, South Main, Lodi
(1909; Felician Sisters; Orphan and destitute children; 3M/12F) - Children's Home, 21 Gates Avenue, Montclair
(1882; Private corporation; Orphan children; 20M/20F) - St Vincent's Nursery and Babies' Hospital, 45 Elm Street, Montclair
(1899; Sisters of Charity; Foundlings and destitute infants; 19M/13F) - Burlington County Children's Home, Mount Holly
(1864; Private corporation; Homeless and dependent children; 14M/19F) - Colored Industrial School, 110 Comstock Street, New Brunswick
(1897; Private corporation; Orphan children over 6; 31M/21F) - Children's Industrial Home, 190 Somerset Street, New Brunswick
(1876; Private corporation; Orphan and destitute children; 12M/24F) - St Mary's Orphan Asylum, Easton Avenue, New Brunswick
(1893; Sisters of St Francis; Orphan and homeless children under 7; 56M/58F) - Ridgely Home for Orphans, 20 Halleck Street, Newark
(1895; Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Orphan children of Odd Fellows or Rebekahs; 9M/8F) - St Peter's Orphan Asylum, 21 Livingston Street, Newark
(1888; School Sisters of Notre Dame; Orphan children; 111M/92F) - Foster Home, 284 Belleville Avenue, Newark
(1848; Private corporation; Orphan children from 3 to 9; 56M/59F) - Newark Orphan Asylum, 323 High Street, Newark
(1849; Private corporation; Orphan children; 50M/37F) - Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum, 534 Clinton Ave, Newark
(1861; Private corporation; Orphan children; 28M/28F) - Eighth Avenue Baby Shelter and Day Nursery, 61 Eighth Avenue, Newark
(1892; Private corporation; Children under 8; 32M/22F) - House of Detention, New Street, Newark
(1910; County of Essex; Delinquent children; 27M+F) - St Mary's Orphan Asylum, South Orange Avenue and Bergen Street, Newark
(1858; Sisters of Charity; Orphan children; 150M/90F) - Home for the Friendless, South Orange Avenue and Bergen Street, Newark
(1872; Private corporation; Orphan children; 33M/30F) - Morris County Children's Home, Parsippany
(1881; Private corporation; Indigent children; 78M+F) - Passaic Home and Orphan Asylum, 64 River Drive, Passaic
(1882; Private corporation; Orphan and destitute children; 14M/17F) - St Joseph's Orphan Asylum, (Totowa), Paterson
(1851; Sisters of Charity; Orphan children; 105F) - Children's Home, 848 Market Street, Paterson
(1905; Passaic County S.P.C.C. and Children's Aid; Homeless children; 14M/15F) - Paterson Orphan Asylum, Market Street, Paterson
(1864; Private corporation; Orphan and destitute children; 46M/50F) - Children's Home, Jackson and Westervelt Avenues, Plainfield
(1877; Private corporation; Destitute children) - Memorial Children's Home, Box 112, Somerville
(1893; Judson Memorial Church, New York; Foundlings, and orphan and homeless children; 19M/13F) - Christ Church Home, Main Street, South Amboy
(1857; Private organization; Orphan and destitute girls; 14F) - Blind Babies' Home, Pine Grove Avenue, Summit
(1909; International Sunshine Society; Blind children too young to enter other institutions; 6M/11F) - Fresh Air and Convalescent Home, Summit
(1887; Private corporation; Children convalescent or needing preventive care) - McKinley Receiving Home, Brunswick Ave. (R.D. 2), Trenton
(1901; New Jersey Children's Home Society; Normal destitute children; 32M/18F) - Holy Rosary Institution, 317 Spring Street, West Hoboken
(1906; Pallotine Sisters of Charity; Orphan girls; 85F) - St Francis Orphan Asylum, 327 Central Avenue, West Hoboken
(1904; Franciscan Sisters of the 1mmaculate Conception; Orphan and indigent girls; 85F)
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