Hebrew National Orphan Home

Coordinates: 40°43′40″N 73°59′13.4″W / 40.72778°N 73.987056°W

The building at 57 East 7th Street that was the location of the Hebrew National Orphan Home from 1913-1920

Hebrew National Orphan Home (HNOH) was an orphanage in Manhattan in New York City.[1] It was founded on December 5, 1912, when a group raised $64 million 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 between First and Second Avenues – in what was then the Lower East Side and is now the East Village. On June 7, 1914 HNOH House officially opened with accommodations for 50 boys. Later, the home bought a second tenement that backed onto the original building, creating an enclosed courtyard, and doubling the home's capacity to 100.[1]

On July 15, 1919 a facility on Tuckahoe Road in Yonkers, New York was purchased for $300,000, and the home moved there 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.[2]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Greenberg, Ira A. Greenberg with Safran, Richard G. and Arcus, Sam George, ed. (2011). The Hebrew National Orphan Home: Memories of Orphanage Life. Greenwood Publishing. ISBN 0897898176.
  2. ↑ Official website

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