Myron Stratton Home

It is now the site of several organizations that support the community and provides housing to a limited number of senior citizens and homeless families.

Stratton stipulated that it became "a free home for poor persons who are without means of support and who are physically unable by reason of old age, youth, sickness or other infirmity to earn a livelihood.

He left some money to family members, including $50,000 (equivalent to $1,760,769 in 2023) to Isaac Harry Stratton, a son he did not acknowledge during his lifetime.

Most of the money was left to open the establishment where poor people could receive food, medical care, and housing.

A total of $28 million (equivalent to $986,030,769 in 2023) in claims were made against the estate, including former employees and partners, women who said they were his wife, and the state.

[1] When her father died and her mother could not afford to raise her, Edith Ryan Sampson lived at the home from 1919 to 1925.