What school or orphanage was at 110 Manhattan Ave?

Answer 1

I was resident at 110 Manhattan Ave. as an orphan from May 1939 until early December 1945 when it closed. When I was there, it was known as Stuart House. I have since found out via internet that it was previously known as "Half Orphan Asylum for Destitute and Abandoned Children" and, I believe in early 1900's known as "Protestant Half Orphan Asylum". My grandmother entered the Half-Orphan Asylum (later called the Stuart Home)in 1898, when her mother died. Her father, a new immigrant from Austria, could not work and care for her, but he visited her every weekend. When he remarried six years later, she came back to her home. She had good memories of the Asylum and the loving care she got there. In researching this institution, I find that it was the subject of a long-term study on the homeopathic approach to medicine and the effects of proper maternal care of institutionalized children. I believe this had a great effect on my grandmother, as she loved the women who cared for her there, and was a life-long devotee of homeopathic medicine!