Asylum of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, 222 Hanover Street, Manchester – Sisters of Mercy (1902) (orphans) (M/F)
Bradley Memorial Home
Chase Home for Children, 358 Court Street, Portsmouth (1877) (orphans, homeless children) (M/F) Image
Daniel Webster Home, New Hampshire, also known as Orphans Home and School for Industry. Founded by Chaplain Daniel August Mack. (1871) The original homestead included part of Daniel Webster’s Elms Farm, Franklin, NH. (destitute and homeless orphans)
Dover Children’s Home, Locust Street, Dover (1892) (destitute children, boarders (M/F)
Golden Rule Homestead (joined with Bradley Memorial Home) “New England’s Own Boy Town”
King’s Daughters’ Day Nursery and Children’s Home, 76 Kinsley Street, Nashua – King’s Daughters’ Benevolent Association (1894) (orphans, destitute) (M/F) Image Info and News Article about opening
Manchester Children’s Home, 135 Webster Street. Manchester (1884) Now called the Webster House. Protestant (indigent, neglected, orphan children) (M/F)
Mercy Home, 86 Mammoth Road, Manchester – Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (1890) (unprotected friendless) (under age 14) (F)
New Hampshire Orphans’ Home, Webster Place. Franklin (1871) (orphans, dependent children (M/F)
Notre Dame Orphanage, Notre Dame Ave., Manchester – Sisters of Charity, also called Notre Dame de Lourdes, Orphanage (1885) (orphans) (F) Image
Orphans’ Home, Concord – Protestant Episcopal Church (1866) (orphans, indigent. and neglected children) (M/F)
Protestant Orphanage, 16 Burritt Street. Nashua (1902) (orphans, neglected) (age 2 to 12) (M/F)
Protestant Orphanage, Portsmouth Image
Rolfe and Rumford Asylum, 15 Hall Street. Concord (1880) (orphans, homeless) (F)
St. Joseph’s Boys’ Home, Hanover Street, Manchester – Sisters of Mercy (1886) (orphans, destitute, abandoned) (M)
St. Joseph’s Orphanage, 293 Main Street, Nashua – Grey Nuns (1891) (orphans, abandoned) (M/F) Image
St. Mary’s Orphanage, 38 Court Street, Dover – Sisters of Mercy (1888) (orphans, destitute children) (M/F)
St. Patrick’s Orphanage, 184 Hanover Street, Manchester – Sisters of Mercy (1873) (orphans, destitute, abandoned) (F)
St. Peter’s Orphanage, 55 Kelley Street, Manchester – Sisters of Charity (1902) (orphans, destitute, abandoned) (M)
St. Vincent de Paul, 253 Lake Avenue, Manchester – Sisters of Charity of Providence (1892) (orphan children) (M/F)
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