Pittsburgh Florence Crittenton Home and
Rescue Association
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Dates:
- Established - March 18, 1895
- Closed - 1975
- Locations:
- 1st site - 3 Wylie Avenue
- 2nd site - 15 Wylie Avenue
- 3rd site - Center avneue
- 4th site - Overhill Street
- 5th site - 1852 Center Avenue (1903)
- 6th site - 535 South Aiken Avenue (1927)
- Also Known As:
- Florence Crittenton Home
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- Founder:
- Charles N. Crittenton - in memory of his daughter - national
- James K. Bakewell - Pittsburgh
- Sponsoring Agency:
- East End Ministerial Association
- Women's Christian Temperance Union
- Notes:
- To provide a home and to extend helping hands and Christian kindness
to erring and firendless women - 1908.
- Location of Records:
- Burned
- Sources:
- PA Department Vertical Files (Unwed Mothers)
- 1895 Greater Pittsburg Handbook
- Directory of the Philanthropic Agencies of the City of Pittsburgh
(1908, 1913, 1917) **(r361 K27)**
- Directory of the Philanthropic, Social and Civic Agencies of the City
of Pittsburgh (1923, 1928) **(r361 K27)**
- 1943 Directory of Social Resources
- 1968 Directory of Health and Welfare Services
- Fifty Years' Work with Girls, 1883-1933: A Story of the Florence
Crittenton Homes, pp. 410-415