Lake Bluff Children's Home

Name/Title

Lake Bluff Children's Home

Entry/Object ID

2000.7.21

Description

Unidentified boy skiing in winter The Methodist Deaconess Orphanage was also known to some as simply the Lake Bluff Orphanage. In it's later years it was known as Lake Bluff Children's Home. The red brick Georgian buildings along Scranton Avenue that made up the orphanage were razed in 1979, replaced by single-family houses. There is a historical marker at Scranton and Evanston Avenues.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects