Children's Temporary Home and Day Nursery

Dates:

Established - April 24, 1877

Closed - 1933-1937

Locations:

1st site - 136 Centre Avenue

2nd site - 2044 Centre Avenue

3rd site - 1315 Liverpool Street

Also Known As:

Improvement Children's Home (1916)

Founder:

Sponsoring Agency:

Pittsburgh Association for the Improvement of the Poor (1875)

Notes:

Its purpose was to provide a temporary home and day nursery for destitute and neglected children. Accepted girls from ages 2 - 12 and boys from 2 - 10 years.

Location of Records:

Unknown

Sources:

1895 Handbook of Greater Pittsburg, p. 12 **(r917.4886 K17)**

Directory of Institutions in Pennsylvania, 1916 **(r917.4886 P3993)**

Directory of the Philanthropic Agencies of the City of Pittsburgh, 1908, 1913, 1917, 1923, 1928

1933 Directory of Social Agencies **(r361 D62)**