The first two groups of cards I thought were perfectly suited to each other. Orphans and the elderly, the alpha and omega in the cycle of life both needing the care of others to survive. All of these organizations were started by people in the various religions of the area, hence their inclusion in this section.
ORPHANAGES
CHILDREN'S HOME
The home moved to this site on West Ninth Street in 1878, where it remained for 40 years. It was founded in the West End in 1860 by Quakers who named it the Penn Mission
THE BOYS' HOME OF CINCINNATI

526 Sycamore St. Center card
shows ad for their magazine.
HOUSE OF REFUGE

Located next door to the City Workhouse in
Camp Washington. This was really one
of the early reformatories that opened in 1850, but also included unwanted
children.
or

German Orphan
Home
General (German) Protestant
Home
Occupying the block bounded by Highland, Melish, and Burnet Avenues and Donahue Street., was founded in 1849 as the German General Protestant Orphan Home after a cholera epidemic swept thru Cincinnati leaving countless children as orphans. The name was changed to Beech Acres in 1950.

St Aloysius Orphan Home in Bond
Hill
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St. Mary's Orphan Asylum St. Vincent Home for Boys Presbyterian Orphans
Home. Mt. Auburn
ST. JOSEPH INFANT ASYLUM
OLD AGE HOMES
THE ALTENHEIM
The Altenheim or German Old Men's Home is located in Avondale at Burnet and Elland Avenues. (See City Hospital cards)

Dynamite explosion
Annual Spring Festival held at The Altenheim 6/6/26
On March 18, 1907 250 lbs. of dynamite that was stored next door to the Altenheim on the site of the new General Hospital that was being built at Burnet and Goodman Avenues. It had been ignited, supposedly, by a disgruntled employee. The blast heard as far away as Fort Thomas, Kentucky left a hole 15 feet across and 10 feet deep with splinters from the wooden shed found embedded in trees a block away. The Altenheim sustained $10,000 in damages and had to asked for public donations. An estimated 50,000 people came to view the damage. At the time there was no laws governing the storage of dynamite.
Organized in 1891 as a home for elderly German men by many influential Germans living in Cincinnati. As a result of the first World War the Altenheim's name was changed to the Cincinnati Old Men's Home, and then later it became the Home for Aged Men. After the building was acquired by the Children's Hospital in 1966, it was demolished.
METHODIST HOME FOR THE AGED
Located at 5343 Hamilton Ave, College Hill. 1899 to present. Now known as The Twin Towers.

Little Sisters of the Poor. Home for Old
Folks
Montgomery
Road
476
Riddle Road in
Clifton