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10 lip 2017 · Homewood Terrace: A Closer Look. by Woody LaBounty. A closer look at an OpenSFHistory image. In the early twentieth century, the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum at Divisadero and Hayes Streets had over 200 residents, and the aging building was not keeping up with the growing demands on the facility.
The San Francisco Orphan Asylum Society (SFOA) was founded in 1851 by a group of ladies attending meetings hosted by the Reverend Albert Williams and his wife. The asylum was originally founded to help a group of siblings, aged 3 to 12 years, orphaned by cholera en route to San Francisco.
The Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home Society was incorporated in San Francisco in 1871 to assist in the care, relief, and protection of orphans and aged Jews. The mission of the Society was supported by B'nai B'rith's District Grand Lodge, Number 4, also located in San Francisco.
This time the lepend may be seen over the door of Mount St. Joseph's infant orphan asylum, which receives so many if the city's appeallngly beautiful but forsaken bits of humanity. Yet these are not the only babies taken by the Sisters of Charity, who conduct this shelter.
Homewood Terrace Orphanage. Jewish orphanage that faced Ocean Avenue from 1921 to 1960s
San Francisco Protestant Orphan Asylum / Edgewood Record Group 1 1851-2014. Arrangement. Organized into eight series: Series 1: Board of Managers; Series 2: Records of Children; Series 3: General Administrative Files; Series 4: Finances; Series 5: Property and Maintenance; Series 6: Publications; Series 7: Photographs; Series 8: Artifacts.
Annual reports, board minutes, admission and discharge records, indenture and adoption files, correspondence, administrative and financial records, property and maintenance records, and photographs of children, staff, buildings, activities, and events for the San Francisco Protestant Orphan Asylum, which became Edgewood.
