Colored Orphan Asylum

Colored Orphan Asylum
	Colored Orphan Asylum in Midtown Manhattan in 1850.
Successor	Riverdale Children's Association
Established	1836; 188 years ago
Founders	Anna Shotwell, Hanna Shotwell, and Mary Lindley Murray
Founded at	Manhattan
Defunct	1946; 78 years ago
Type	Orphanage
Location	Midtown Manhattan (1836–1867); Upper Manhattan (1867–1907); Riverdale, Bronx (1907–1946);
Region served	New York City
Key people	Mary Lindley Murray, James McCune Smith
Affiliations	Hampton Institute

The Colored Orphan Asylum was an institution in New York City, open from 1836 to 1946. It housed on average four hundred children annually and was mostly managed by women.^[1] Its first location was on Fifth Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan, a four-story building with two wings. It later moved to Upper Manhattan and then to Riverdale in the Bronx.

^ "Colored Orphan Asylum - Encyclopedia of New York City". www.virtualny.cuny.edu. Retrieved December 3, 2015.

[virtualny.cuny.edu-1] "Colored Orphan Asylum - Encyclopedia of New York City". www.virtualny.cuny.edu. Retrieved December 3, 2015.

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