Protestant Orphan Asylum of Pittsburgh
and Allegheny
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Dates:
- Established - April 17, 1832
- Closed - 1969
- Locations:
- 1st site - Montgomery Avenue (Allegheny City)
- 2nd site - Taylor and Webster Streets - purchased by the Widows
Association of Allegheny City
- 3rd site - Ridge and Grant Avenues (1866)
- 4th site - 1940 Perrysville Avenue (1909)
- Also Known As:
- Protestant Orphans Home
- Protestant Home for Children (changed between 1940 and 1947)
- Pressley Ridge School (1969)
- Founder:
- Mrs. Benjamin Page
- Rev. Joseph Stockton
- Sponsoring Agency:
- Orphan Asylum Society of Pittsburgh and Allegheny
- Protestant Orphan Asylum Society of Pittsburgh and Allegheny (March
20, 1872)
- Notes:
- First orphanage in Allegheny County.
- Accepted soldiers' orphans.
- Protestant Home for Children merged with Pressley House to form Pressley Ridge School on June 1,
1969.
- Location of Records:
- The Pressley Ridge Schools, % Bruce R. Belohlavek, Records
Coordinator, 530 Marshall Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15214 ; 412-442-2899
- Sources:
- PA Department Vertical Files (Orphanages)
- 1837 Pittsburgh and Allegheny City Directory
- 1895 Greater Pittsburg Handbook
- 1933 Directory of Social Agencies
- 1943 Directory of Social Resources
- 1968 Directory of Health and Welfare Services
- Annual Reports (1871-1920) of the Protestant Orphan Asylum of
Pittsburgh and Allegheny
- Seventy-fifth Annual Report of the Protestant Orphan Asylum of
Pittsburgh and Allegheny - historical sketch 1832-1907, pp. 17-25
- Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 21, n. 3,
p. 37
- Pennsylvania's Soldiers' Orphan School...With Names of Pupils
Subjoined (1876), pp. 341-348