History of Nebraska Institutions
Bethlehem Children’s Home, 34th St. and Fowler Ave., Omaha – Lutheran Augustan Synod (1901) (Swedish orphans) (M/F)
Boys Town, Boys Town (formerly Girls and Boys Town and Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home and The City of Little Men. 25th and Dodge St. (1917)
- History
- Boys Town : a photographic history / Barbara A. Lonnborg, editor (1992) .
Child Saving Institute, 42nd and Jackson Streets, Omaha – National Benevolent Association, an association of the Disciples of Christ (1892) (dependent, neglected, abandoned) (unwed mothers home) (M/F)
Christian Orphans’ Home, R.D. 3. Holdredge – Free Mission Church at Phelps Center, became part of the Christian Homes Care Community of Holdrege by the of the Evangelical Free Church of America (1889) (orphans) (M/F)
Lancaster County Detention Home, 746 Rose St., Lincoln, – County of Lancaster 1907) (dependent, neglected, delinquent children (M/F)
Home for the Friendless, between 10th and 11th Streets, Lincoln. (aged, orphans and unwed mothers) the name was changed multiple times: Home for Dependent Children, Home for Children, Whitehall School, Nebraska Center for Children and Youth.
Immanuel Children’s Home, Omaha (1901) Post Card
Lutheran Orphan Home, 1544 Military Ave. Fremont – Missouri Synod (1893) (homeless, dependent ((M/F)
Mothers’ Jewels’ Home, York – Woman’s Home Missionary Society, M. E. Church (1890) (orphans and half-orphans) (sound body and mind) (ages 3-12) (not incorrigible) religious services and schooling) (M/F)
Nebraska Children’s Home Society, 4939 S. 118th Street, Omaha, NE 68137, 402-451-0787, info@nchs.org, nchs.org (1893) (abandoned, abused, neglected children) (support to keep families together, foster and adoptive homes) Documents, Photos of children
Omaha Crèche 3713 North Pratt Street, Omaha (1887) (daycare for children of single, working parents, boarding home, and orphanage)
St James’ Orphanage, Orphanage Ave, Benson – Sisters of Mercy (1874) (orphans, dependent) (M/F)
St Thomas’ Orphanage, 3601 S. 27th, Lincoln – Sisters of Charity (Grey Nuns) (1904-1963) (Catholic orphans, dependent children) (M/F)
State Public School, 944 H St., Lincoln – State of Nebraska; (1881) (mentally sound, dependent) (under age 16) (M/F)
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