- * Asylum of Our Lady of Refuge
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- * Bavarian Benevolent Association
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- * Bohemian Benevolent Association
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- * Buffalo Children's Aid Society and Newsboy's and Bootblack's Home
29 Franklin Street.
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- * Buffalo Electrical Aid Association
Organized February 20, 1888
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- * Buffalo Friendship Home
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- * Buffalo Orphan Asylum
403 Virginia Street
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- * Catholic Benevolent Legion
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- * Catholic Home
64 Franklin street
For young girls out of employment.
In charge of the ladies of the Sacred Heart of Mary.
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- * Christopher Columbus Mutual Benefit Club (Italian)
Organized February 4, 1883
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- * Church Charity Foundation
This society has general authority to purchase real
estate for charitable purposes, and is not restricted to any
particular charity, but can inaugurate and support any number of
asylums for any class of unfortunates.
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- * Deaconess Home
2578 Main street
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- * District Nursing Association and Diet Kitchen
344 Delaware Avenue
A charitable organization to aid the worthy poor.
The kitchens are located at 307 Seneca Street, 1192 Niagara Street
and Westminster House on Monroe Street near Broadway.
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- * Dr. Pierce's Invalid Hotel
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- * Elsaess-Lothringen Benevolent Association
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- * Evangelical Church Home (for Buffalo & vicinity)
Broadway (Forks station), near city line.
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- * Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Orphan Asylum
Organized March 6, 1864
The girls department is located at 280 Hickory Street, the
boys' department at Sulpher Springs.
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- * Erie County Almshouse
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- * Excelsior Marine Benevolent Association
Rooms, No. 11 Main Street
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- * Fitch Creche
159 Swan Street
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- * German American Benevolent Association
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- * German Benevolent Association
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- * German Deaconess Home
27 Goodrich Street
This is a home where poor persons may secure temporary
treatment when sick. There is also a training school for
nurses in connection with the Home.
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- * German Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum
Dodge Street near the Parade.
Organized in 1864, and under the management of the
Sisters of St. Francis. They have 200 orphans in the institute.
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- * German Evangelical Church Home
Broadway and city line.
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- * Grand Army of the Republic Bureau of Relief
Police Headquarters, Franklin, cor. West Seneca
Street. Furnishes assistance to needy soldiers and their families.
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- * Grant and Loan Association of the Charity Organization Society
Makes grants and small loans where assistance cannot be procured
from other sources.
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- * Harmonia Benevolent Association (German)
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- * Hessian-Darmstadter Benevolent Association
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- * Home for Aged and Destitute Females
Opened in 1858. Building on Rhode Island
Street near Niagara.
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- * Home for the Friendless
1500 Main Street
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- * Homestead Lodging House
84 and 86 Lloyd Street
Maintained by the Christian Homestead Association.
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- * Ingleside Home
70 Harvard Place
Incorporated in 1869. This institution was organized for the
purpose of reclaiming erring women. They are cared for, provided
with employment, instruction, food, clothing and needed medical
attention.
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- * Italian Union Benevolent Society of Buffalo
Organized May 20, 1874.
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- * Ladies' Hospital Association
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- * Le Couteulx St. Mary's Institution for the Instruction of Deaf Mutes
125 Edward Street.
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- * Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association
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- * Monastery of the Good Shepherd
(also called Magdalene Asylum)
485 Best Street
A Mother Superior is in charge, with 45 professed sisters and
105 penitents. At the same place and under the same direction
is the Catholic Protectory for Girls.
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- * North Buffalo Catholic Association
corner Dearborn and Amherst Streets
Organized in 1885. Incorporated May, 1888.
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- * Parkside Sanitarium
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- * Prevoyance Benevolent Association
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- * Prison-Gate Mission
The object of this organization is to extend a
helping hand to those leaving the penitentiary, jail, etc.,
and to start them on the way to do right.
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- * Protectory for Wayward Girls
485 Best Street
Under the direction of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd.
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- * Providence Retreat
On Main Street near Humbolt Parkway.
Under the charge of fourteen Sisters of Charity. For the
treatment of the insane.
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- * Rheinpfaelzer Benevolent Association
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- * St. Agnes Training School for Girls
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- * Sun Cure Sanitorium
East Aurora Village
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- * St. Felix Home for Polish Girls
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- * St. Francis Asylum
337 Pine Street
For aged and destitute persons, without distinction of nationality
or religion. Accomodates 300 inmates. Governed by eighteen Sisters
of St. Francis.
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- * St. John's Protectory
West Seneca, in charge of the Brothers of
the Holy Infancy, and seventeen Sisters of St. Joseph have
charge of the children under the superintendence of Rev. N. H. Baker.
The average number of boys cared for is 325.
(see 1930 census here)
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- * St. Joseph's Male Orphan Asylum
West Seneca, N.Y.
Opened August, 1845; incorporated August 2, 1851. To care for orphan
children, over 200 being accomodated. Any boy between the ages of four
and 15 years may be admitted by applying to Rev. W. H. Baker. Supported
by appropriations from the Board of Supervisors, relatives of the
children, and church societies.
(see 1930 census here)
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- * St. Martha's Home for Non-Dependent Women and Working Girls
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- * St. Mary's Asylum for Widows, Foundlings and Infants
126 Edward Street, was organized by the Sisters of
Charity in 1854. An Asylum where infants and widows may procure a
home. Children are never kept over seven years. A charge of $5 per
week is required for board, but persons having no means of paying are
also taken.
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- * St. Michael's Benevolent Society
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- * St. Rose of Lima Home
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- * St. Vincent's Female Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum
at 1313 Main Street, was built in 1848, and is a three-story
building. There are 1840 orphans cared for in the asylum, which is
under the direction of the Sisters of Charity.
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- * St. Vincent De Paul Conference of St. Michael's Church
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- * Salvation Army Lodging House
111-113 Commercial Street; known as "The Ark."
Receives men able to pay and men sent by ticket.
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- * Schwaebischer Benevolent Association
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- * Sisterhood of Zion, Hebrew Board of Charity
headquarters, 456 Jefferson Street. Operating under
the Sisterhood is the Daughters of the Star.
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- * Soceta Fratellanza Union Di Sanfele
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- * St. Augustinus Verein Benevolent Association
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- * State Charities Aid Association
organized in 1872
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- * Ukranian Home
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- * Washington Benevolent Association
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- * The Wayfare
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- * Welcome Hall
at 307 Seneca Street
Organized November 1, 1894. The object of the Association is to
secure employment for the poor, and give them temporary aid.
There are about 100 members, and the Hall is in charge of a matron.
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- * Westminster House
Organized September, 1894. Occupies 4 cottages at
424 Adams Street, running through to Monroe.
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- * Women's Christian Association
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- * Working Boys Home of the Sacred Heart
34 Niagara Square.
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