The timeline list of Orphanages is Orphanages Timeline The map of the orphanages is at Orphanages Map

Name Approximate Dates Addresses Order/Owner
Academy of the Sacred Heart (Home for Girls) 1940- 334 North Taylor Ave Mesdames of the Sacred Heart
Academy of the Sacred Heart 1920- 322 North Taylor Ave & Maryland Avenues Mesdames of the Sacred Heart The 1921 City Directory shows Mullanphy Orphan Asylum at this same address.
Amanda Home for Children -1900 1418 O’Fallon St.
Amanda Home for Children 1900- 1711 Wash (now Cole) St.
Amelia Home for Children 1900- 4348 Garfield Ave
American Orphans’ Home 1900- 4329 Warne Ave
Annie Malone Children’s Home (formerly St. Louis Colored Orphans’ Home) 1946-1990 2612 Goode Ave Annie Malone Children and Family Services
Annie Malone Family Crisis Center 2008- 5355 Page Blvd Annie Malone Children and Family Services
Annie Malone’s Children’s Home 1990-2008 2612 Annie Malone Dr Annie Malone Children and Family Services
Arthur Brittain Hall (Home for Boys) 1914-1921 1900 Louisiana Ave Episcopal Diocese of Missouri
Baptist Orphan Home 1887-1906 1906 Lafayette Ave & Mississippi Ave Baptist
Bethany Christian Home 1907-1921 4205 N 11th St.
Bethesda Christian Home and Infant Asylum 1889-1892 Russell Blvd & S 9th St Bethesda
Bethesda Foundling Home 1896- 3533 Laclede Ave Bethesda
Bethesda Home and Infant Asylum 1920- 3651 Rutger St. Bethesda
Biddle Street Infant Asylum 1876- O’Fallon St. & N 10th St Sisters of Charity (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
Boys & Girls Industrial Home 1880- 413 North 18th St. Unitarian
Boys Orphan Asylum (see St. Joseph Home for Boys) 1845- Walnut next to the Cathedral @38.6245636,-90.1903653 Daughters of Charity, Emmitsburg
Boys Orphanage 1831- Spruce Street between Third and Fourth @38.6215214,-90.1879717 Sisters of Charity (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
Boys Town St. Louis 1987- 4485 Westminster Pl Boys Town of Missouri
Boys’ and Girls’ Industrial Home 1886- 413 N 18th St Unitarian under the auspices of the Church of the Messiah
Boys’ and Girls’ Industrial Home 1876- 413 N 18th St Unitarian
CWBA Youth Home 1962- Darst Rd & N Hartnett Ave, Ferguson Christian Women’s Benevolent Association
Cathedral Orphanage 1834-1846 Third and Walnut @38.6240113,-90.1875576 Sisters of Charity (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
Catholic Protectorate 1876-1885 2101 Rue De La Salle Dr, Glencoe Christian Brothers
Child Center of Our Lady of Grace 1947-1959 5320 Cabanne Ave Managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums of St. Louis
Children’s Home (Christian Women’s Benevolent Association) 1959-2005 7900 Natural Bridge Rd, Normandy Managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums of St. Louis
Children’s Home Society of Missouri 1894-1895 4062 Juniata St. Children’s Home Society
Christian Church Children’s Home 1963- 9445 Litzsinger Rd, Brentwood Children’s Home Society
Christian Orphan Home & Hospital 1930- Darst Rd & N Hartnett Ave, Ferguson Christian Women’s Benevolent Association
Christian Orphans’ Home 1889-1890 1235 Bayard Ave Benevolent Association of the Christian Church
Christian Orphan’s Home 1940-1978 3033 Euclid Ave Benevolent Association of the Christian Church
Church of God and Saints of Christ Orphanage and Home (African American) 1920-1921 4201 Market St
City Mission House under the auspices of the Church of the Messiah (Unitarian) 1860-1863 48 N 8th St. Unitarian
Convent of Good Shephard 1870- 413 M 18th St. Unitarian
Convent and Academy of the Sacred Heart and Mullanphy Orphan Asylum 1930- 334 North Taylor Avenue Mesdames of the Sacred Heart
Convent and Asylum of the House of the Good Shepherd 1890- Seventeenth near Pine Sisters of the Good Shepherd
Convent of the Good Shepherd and Mullanphy Orphan Home 1893-1895 334 North Taylor Ave, ne cor. Maryland Mesdames of the Sacred Heart
Convent of the Good Shepherd 1849-1888 Ninth and Marion Streets Sisters of the Good Shepherd
Convent of the Sacred Heart and Mullanphy Orphan Home 1904-1969 Gravois and Bamberger Avenues Sisters of the Good Shepherd
Dorothy Drey Sommers Shelter Home 1926- 2236 Tower Grove Avenue Jewish Orphans Home Society
Edgewood Children’s Center 1943- 330 North Gore Avenue and Rock Hill, Webster Groves St. Louis Association of Ladies for the Relief of Orphan Children
Emergency Children’s Home (ECHO) 1978-2008 3055 North Euclid Avenue National Benevolent Association
Emergency Home and Hospital for Aged People, Infants and Children 1907- 3108 Pine Street
Episcopal Orphans’ Home 1843-1848 Fifth, Sixth, Spruce, & Almond, cramped Alley House Episcopal Diocese of Missouri
Epworth Emergency Home 1940- 3621 DeTonty Street Episcopal Diocese of Missouri
Epworth Girls Home 1920-1923 4310 Enright Avenue Methodist
Epworth Home for Girls (Epworth School for Girls) 1923-1976 110 North Elm Avenue, Webster Groves Methodist
Epworth Home for Girls 1915-1920 3410 Morgan Street Methodist
Epworth School for Girls 1880-1920 4310 Morgan Methodist
Evangelical Children’s Home 1936- Elm Avenue and Marshal Place, Webster Groves Methodist
Father Dunne’s Colored Orphans’ Home 1931- 3028 Washington Avenue Managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums of St. Louis
Father Dunne’s News-Boys Home and Protectorate 1906-1907 1013 Selby Place Managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums of St. Louis
Father Dunne’s News-Boys’ Home and Protectorate 1906-1907 2737 Locust Street Managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums of St. Louis
Father Dunne’s Newsboys’ Home & Protectorate, Inc. 1956-1984 4253 Clarence Avenue Managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums of St. Louis
Female Half-Orphan Asylum 1984-2006 853 Dunn Road, Florissant Managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums of St. Louis
Female Night Refuge 1876- Morgan and Twenty-third, cor. @38.636293,-90.210106 Sisters of Mercy
Forest Park Children’s Center 1946-1955 4919 Forest Park Boulevard Junior League of St. Louis
Freedman’s Orphan Home 1864-1865 Twelfth Street, between Cass and O’Fallon Western Sanitary Commission
General Protestant Children’s Home 1971- 12685 Olive Boulevard, St. Louis County German General Protestant Orphans Association of St. Louis
German Evangelical Lutheran Orphans’ Home 1868-1966 Ballas Road at the corner of Manchester Road, Des Peres Lutheran
German General Orphans Home 1920- 4427 Natural Bridge Road German General Protestant Orphans Association of St. Louis
German General Protestant Orphans Association of St. Louis 1877-1878 Chouteau and Thirteenth Streets German General Protestant Orphans Association of St. Louis
German General Protestant Orphans Home 1878-1886 Montgomery & Twentieth Street German General Protestant Orphans Association of St. Louis
German Protestant Orphans’ Home 1962-2004 12685 Olive Boulevard, St. Louis County German General Protestant Orphans Association of St. Louis
German Saint Vincent Orphan Asylum 1886- Easton Avenue, St. Louis County, 10 miles west of the Court House Evangelical
German Saint Vincent Orphan Home 1851- Tenth and O’Fallon Streets Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Girls’ Industrial Home 1889-1917 1431 Hogan Street Sisters of Christian Charity
Great Circle 1910-1978 5501 Enright Avenue Girls’ Industrial Home
Hessoun Bohemian Catholic Orphanage 1908-1952 Smizer Mill Road, north of Gravois, Fenton Sisters of Notre Dame/Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross (Bohemia)
House of Refuge 1851-1906 Gasconade and Osage Streets City of St. Louis
House of the Good Shepherd 1876- Louisiana Avenue, near Osage City of St. Louis (became St. Louis Industrial School)
House of the Guardian Angel (Orphan Asylum and Industrial School for Girls) 1876- Seventeenth Street, near Chestnut Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd
House of the Guardian Angel 1870-1876 Marion Street, SW corner Menard Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul
Industrial Home and School for Girls 1876- Tenth and Marion, cor. Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul
Industrial School and Home for Girls 1871-1912 Twenty-second and Morgan, now Delmar Streets @38.636007,-90.208549 Sisters of Mercy
Industrial School and Temporary Home for Destitute Children 1855- Morgan and Nineteenth Privately held, Started by a Presbyterian woman and a Unitarian woman
Infant Orphan Asylum (under the charge of Sisters of Charity) 1859-1863 Marion St & Menard St Sisters of Charity (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and Half Orphan Asylum for Girls conducted by the Sisters of St. Joseph 1858-1886 Lucas Avenue and Beaumont Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Jewish Orphans’ Home of St. Louis 1870- 2649-2651 Lucas Avenue Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Jewish Shelter Home for Children 1929-1940 6630 Oakland Avenue Jewish Orphans Home Society
LaSalle Institute for Orphans 1859-1863 Menard, NW corner Marion @38.61350446994809,-90.20301522303771 Christian Brothers
LaSalle Institute 1900- Meramec Township, St. Louis County Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums of St. Louis
Lutheran Orphans’ Home (German Evangelical Lutheran Orphan’s Home) 1868-1967 Manchester & Ballas Roads, Des Peres Lutheran
Male Orphan Asylum under the superintendence of the Sisters of Charity 1838-1848 Walnut and Third Streets, corner @38.6240113,-90.1875576 Sisters of Charity (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
Marian Hall Agencies 1994- 1340 Partridge Avenue, University City Managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums of St. Louis
Marian Hall 1984- 325 North Newstead Ave Managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums of St. Louis
Martin de Porres 1985- 2047 East Grand Boulevard Managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums of St. Louis
Marygrove 1969- 2705 Mullanphy Lane, Florissant Convent of the Good Shepherd
Masonic Home of Missouri 1889-1981 5351 Delmar Boulevard Masonic
Maternity Lying-in Hospital 1876- Fifteenth and Clark Avenue, cor. Sisters of Charity (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
Mercita Hall 1984- 325 North Newstead Ave Managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums of St. Louis
Mercy Home 1913-1920 2228 Locust Street Sisters of Mercy
Methodist Childrens Services of Missouri 1976-present 110 North Elm Avenue, Webster Groves Methodist
Methodist Episcopal Home for Girls 1910- 3410 Morgan Street Methodist
Methodist Episcopal Orphans’ Home 1865- Twelfth and Monroe Streets, SW corner Methodist
Methodist Orphans’ Home for Boys 1866- Twelfth and Brooklyn Streets, SW corner Methodist
Methodist Orphans’ Home 1867- 1743 North Twelfth Street Methodist
Mission Free School Orphanage 1950- 3715 Jamieson and Tholozan avenues Methodist
Mission Free School and Home of the Church of the Messiah under auspices of the Church of the Messiah (Unitarian) 1880- Ninth and Wash Streets, SW corner Unitarian
Mission Free School of the Church of the Messiah 1900- 2817 West Chestnut Street Unitarian
Mission Free School 1907-1920 369 North Taylor Avenue Mission Free School
Missouri Baptist Children’s Home 1906-present 11300 St. Charles Rock Road, Bridgeton Baptist
Missouri Baptist Orphan Home 1886-1887 2651 Morgan Street Baptist
Mothers’ and Babies’ Home of the Christian Church in St. Louis 1899-1900 2016 Lafayette Benevolent Association of the Christian Church
Mothers’ and Babies’ Home 1918- Ferguson Christian Women’s Benevolent Association
Mother’s & Babie’s Home (supported by the Christian Church), no number North Hartnett Avenue, Ferguson 1921- 6211 Plymouth Avenue, University City Christian Women’s Benevolent Association
Mother’s and Babie’s Home 1910- 3047 North Taylor Avenue Christian Women’s Benevolent Association
Mullanphy Orphan Asylum 1827- Broadway, between LaSalle and Hickory Street Mesdames of the Sacred Heart
NBA (National Benevolent Association) Emergency Childrens’ Home 1907-1909 Taylor & Maryland Avenues Mesdames of the Sacred Heart
Newsboys Home 1907- 3000 Washington Avenue Managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums of St. Louis
Orphan Asylum under the care of the Sisters of Charity/Roman Catholic Male and Female Orphan Asylum 1910- 519 North Garrison Avenue Managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums of St. Louis
Orphan Girls’ Asylum under the direction of the Daughters of Charity 1863-1870 Spruce and Fourth Streets, corner Daughters of Charity Emmitsburg, Maryland
Orphans’ Home, supported by the Episcopal Churches 1863-1873 1100 Eleventh Street and Monroe Street, NW Corner Episcopal Diocese of Missouri
Orphan’s Home (Colored) 1870- Twelfth Street, between O’Fallon and Cass Avenues
Orphan’s Home 1859-1863 Eleventh Street and Marion Park Episcopal Diocese of Missouri
Orphan’s Home, under management of Episcopal Church 1876- 948 Chouteau Avenue German General Protestant Orphans Association of St. Louis
Parkview Home 1921- 6600 Washington Avenue Christian Women’s Benevolent Association
Presbyterian Home 1876- 11 South Sixteenth Street Presbyterian
Roman Catholic Female Orphans’ Asylum/St. Mary’s Orphan Asylum of the Sisters of Charity 1843-1852 Tenth and Biddle Streets Sisters of Charity (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
Roman Catholic House of Good Shepherd 1852- Chestnut and Eighteenth Streets Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd
Roman Catholic Male Orphans’ Asylum/St. Joseph’s Male Orphan Asylum 1841- Fifteenth and Clark Avenue, cor. Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Saint Vincent Home for Children 1917-present 7401 Florissant Road, Normandy Sisters of Christian Charity
Salvation Army Children’s Home 1904-1910 1243 North Garrison Avenue Salvation Army
Salvation Army Hope Center for Children 1977-2003 3740 Marine Avenue Salvation Army
Salvation Army Infant Nursery 1910- 1243 North Garrison Avenue Salvation Army
Salvation Army Rescue Home & Maternity Hospital 1900-1940 3740 Marine Avenue Salvation Army
School of the Immaculate Heart 1883- 7654 Natural Bridge Road Sisters of the Good Shepherd
Servant Girls out of Situations 1876- Morgan and Twenty-third, cor. @38.636293,-90.210106 Sisters of Mercy
Sisters of Mercy Industrial School and Girls Home 1910- 2126 Morgan Street Sisters of Mercy
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet 1848- Seventh, between Park and Barry Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Soldier’s Orphan Home 1865- Webster Groves Western Sanitary Commission
St. Ann’s Foundling Home 1853-1859 Eleventh and Marion Daughters of Charity, Emmitsburg
St. Ann’s Home for Widows, Lying In Hospital and Foundling Asylum under the direction of the Sisters of Charity 1859-1907 O’Fallon Street, southeast corner Tenth Avenue @38.63779401219685,-90.19137053192969 Daughters of Charity, Emmitsburg
St. Ann’s Widows Home, Lying In Hospital, and Foundling Asylum 1842- 1029 Marion and Menard Sisters of Charity (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
St. Ann’s Widows’ Home 1878-1900 1236 North Tenth Street Sisters of Charity (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
St. Ann’s Widow’s Home, Lying-In Hospital, and Foundling Asylum 1907-1910 Page Blvd & Union Blvd Daughters of Charity, Emmitsburg
St. Bridget Orphan Asylum 1910-1956 5301 Page Avenue Daughters of Charity, Emmitsburg
St. Bridget’s Half Orphan Asylum 1870-1882 Christy Avenue, northwest corner Twenty-Sixth Street Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
St. Bridget’s Half-Orphan Asylum 1886- 2675 Lucas Avenue Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
St. Bridget’s Orphan Asylum 1833- Carondelet Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
St. Catherine’s Home for Girls 1876- 2649 Lucas Avenue Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
St. Catherine’s Orphanage and Industrial School for Girls, and the House of Mercy 1957- 1340 Partridge Avenue, University City Sisters of Mercy
St. Domenico Italian Orphans Home 1930-1940 1340 Partridge Avenue, University City Sisters of the Most Precious Blood
St. Elizabeth School 1880- Fourteenth and Gay Streets Oblate Sisters of Providence
St. Elizabeth’s Orphans’ Home (Became St. Elizabeth Academy) 1880-1912 Morgan Street Oblate Sisters of Providence
St. Frances Catholic (Colored) Orphan Asylum 1883- 1511 Morgan Street Oblate Sisters of Providence
St. Frances’ Colored Orphan Asylum 1905-1940 616 St. Mary’s Lane, Normandy Oblate Sisters of Providence
St. Joan of Arc 1905- Normandy, 8 acres of land Oblate Sisters of Providence
St. Joseph Convent of Mercy, Industrial School for Girls, House sic Mercy Home for Unemployed Servant Girls, St. Joseph’s Female Night Refuge, St. Catherine’s School 1984- 325 North Newstead Ave Managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums of St. Louis
St. Joseph Home for Boys 1934- South Grand Boulevard and Delor Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
St. Joseph Male Orphan Asylum 1894- 4701 South Grand Boulevard Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
St. Joseph’s Convent of Mercy Mother-house Novitiate and Industrial School for Girls 1934- 4753 South Grand Boulevard Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
St. Joseph’s Female Night Refuge 1910- 2134 Morgan Street Sisters of Mercy
St. Joseph’s Half-Orphan Asylum under the charge of the sisters of St. Joseph 1859- Marion and Fulton Streets, nw corner @38.61177621686968,-90.20011239961951 Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
St. Joseph’s Male Orphan Asylum 1849- Clark Ave and Thirteenth St @38.625584, -90.200525 Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum 1863-1890 Clark Avenue, northeast corner Fifteenth Street Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
St. Louis Association of Ladies for the Relief of Orphan Children 1835- Seventh Street between Morgan and Franklin St. Louis Association of Ladies for the Relief of Orphan Children
St. Louis Christian Home 1946- 3033 North Euclid Avenue National Benevolent Association
St. Louis City Orphans’ Home 1907- 4136 Lexington Avenue
St. Louis Colored Orphans’ Home 1888-1900 1427 North Twelfth Street African American women members of Harper Women’s Christian Temperance Union
St. Louis Home of Redeeming Love 1922-1946 2612 Goode Street African American women members of Harper Women’s Christian Temperance Union
St. Louis House of Refuge 1853- 4011 Virginia Avenue City of St. Louis
St. Louis Male Orphan Asylum/St. Joseph’s Male Orphan Asylum 1846-1849 Third and Walnut @38.6240113,-90.1875576 Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
St. Louis Newsboys’ Home 1904- Main and Clark Streets Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums of St. Louis
St. Louis Protestant Orphan Asylum 1836-1863 North Seventh Street, West side, between Franklin Avenue and Morgan Street St. Louis Association of Ladies for the Relief of Orphan Children
St. Louis Protestant Orphans’ Asylum 1869-1900 Webster Groves St. Louis Association of Ladies for the Relief of Orphan Children
St. Mary’s Female Orphan Asylum 1876- Sixteenth and Biddle Sisters of Charity (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
St. Mary’s Female Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum 1907-1940 5341 Emerson Avenue Sisters of Charity (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
St. Mary’s Orphan Asylum 1842- Broadway and Biddle Sisters of Charity (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
St. Mary’s Orphanage 1857- 101 Biddle Street Sisters of Charity (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
St. Philomena Orphan Asylum 1876- Clark and Summit Avenues Sisters of Charity (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
St. Philomena Technical School 1910- Cabanne Ave & Union Blvd Sisters of Charity (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
St. Philomena’s Female Orphan Asylum & School 1930- 5306 Cabanne Avenue Sisters of Charity (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
St. Philomena’s Industrial School 1900-1910 2901 Clark Avenue Sisters of Charity (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
St. Philomena’s Orphan Asylum and School 1852-1859 Walnut & Fifth, SW corner @38.6245636,-90.1903653 Sisters of Charity (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
St. Philomena’s Technical School from St. Philomena’s Orphan Asylum and School 1868-1970 Clark and Ewing Avenues Daughters of Charity, Emmitsburg
St. Philomena’s 1841- Fifth and Walnut, near the Old Cathedral @38.6245636,-90.1903653 Sisters of Charity (Emmitsburg, Maryland)
St. Rita’s Convent 1912- 1309 Pine Street Oblate Sisters of Providence
St. Vincent German Orphan Asylum 1921-1928 4650 South Broadway Oblate Sisters of Providence
St. Vincent’s German Male and Female Orphan Asylum 1851-1859 Twentieth Street, between Cass Avenue and O’Fallon Street Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Street Boys’ Home 1876- 705 Pine Street
The Orphans’ Home 1843-1848 Spruce Street, between 5th & 6th Episcopal Diocese of Missouri
The Protectorate of the Good Shepherd Sisters and Industrial School of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of St. Louis 1891- Normandy Convent of the Good Shepherd
Villa Maria 1956- 8201 Florissant Road, Normandy Sisters of Divine Providence
Volunteers of America Children’s Home 2000- 2647 Ohio Avenue Managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums of St. Louis
YouthBridge 2005- 12685 Olive Boulevard, St. Louis County German General Protestant Orphans Association of St. Louis

 

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