Hebrew National Orphan Home
- Hebrew National Orphan Home
Hebrew National Orphan Home (HNOH) was an orphanage in Manhattan in New York City, New York, USA.
History
It was created on New York's Lower East Side on December 5, 1912, when a group raised $US 64 toward establishing a Jewish orthodox home for the care of orphaned and destitute Jewish boys. On October 14, 1913, a committee of the Bessarabian Verband, a group of Romanian Jews paid the first installment of $400 for the premises at 57 East 7th Street. On June 7, 1914 HNOH House officially opened with accommodations for 50 boys. They bought a second tenement houses that backed to each other creating an enclosed courtyard.
On July 15, 1919 the Tuckahoe Road facility was purchased for $300,000 in Yonkers, New York and it opened on July 26, 1920. In 1947, it changed its name to Homecrest then it merged with the Gustave Hartman home for children in 1956 under the name of Hartman-Homecrest and in early 1962 Hartman-Homecrest was merged into the Jewish Child Care Association (JCCA) of New York and the name HNOH after 60 years, was no longer used. [ [http://www.hnoh.com/ Official website] ]
ee also
*Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York (another Jewish orphanage in New York City)
References
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