Robert Boyd Ward Home for Children

Dates:

Established - 1918

Closed - ?

Locations:

1st site - 3890 Bigelow Blvd.

2nd site - 50 Moffett Street (Mt. Lebanon) (1955)

Also Known As:

Ward Program Services

Ward Home for Children

Ward Home

Founder:

Mrs. Mary Catherine Ward in memory of her husband, Robert Boyd Ward, of the Ward Baking Company

Sponsoring Agency:

Methodist Church Union

Western Pennsylvania Annual Conference

Notes:

Merger of a North Side Nursery (1904) and the Temporary Home of the Methodist Episcopal Church (1904)

Location of Records:

Ward Home, Inc.
Manor Oak Two
1910 Cochran Road, Suite 100
Pittsburgh, PA 15220-1273
Phone: 412-343-6300

Sources:

PA Department Vertical Files (Orphanages)

1933 Directory of Social Agencies

1943 Directory of Social Resources

1963 Directory of Health and Welfare Services

1968 Directory of Health and Welfare Services