The Home of the Good Shepherd opens in Seattle neighborhood of Wallingford on July 29, 1907.

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On July 29, 1907, the Home of the Good Shepherd, located at 4649 Sunnyside Avenue in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood, opens. The Sisters and their charges move into the new building from their previous residence on First Hill. The architect of the building, C. Alfred Breitung, sends ice cream for the Sisters and for three busloads of children (the orphans and troubled girls the institution cares for).

The cornerstone was laid in September 1906 and the building erected at a cost of $125,000. The Home provided shelter, education, and guidance both to orphans and to troubled girls. The Home generated revenue by operating a commercial laundry. In 1926, the orphans were transferred to Mother Cabrini’s Sacred Heart Villa in Seattle’s Laurelhurst neighborhood. The Home continued to serve teenage girls and young women until 1973.

Sources:
HistoryLink Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History, "Home of the Good Shepherd" (by Toby Harris), http://www.historylink.org/ (accessed June 2, 2002).

By Toby Harris, June 14, 2002

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Home of the Good Shepherd (Alfred C. Breitung, 1907), 1908
Postcard Courtesy Archives Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Mid-Atlantic Province