Nebraska home for dependent children

Later, the state obtained control by refusing to make appropriation unless given complete authority.

A further restriction upon appropriations for this institution made the Home available only for children who were subject to adoption.

Under notice duly published, the city of Lincoln was the only bidder, and its proposition to donate US$2,050, to said home was accepted by said board, and by an order of the Board of Public Lands and Buildings the home for the friendless was located at Lincoln, Nebraska.

A tract of improved land, with buildings, comprising two and seven hundredths (2.07) acres, at the south end of Eleventh street, adjoining the city of Lincoln, was purchased for the sum of US$2,100, and on August 24, 1882, the contract for the erection of the home was let, for the sum of US$3,599.77, the Society of the Home for the Friendless agreeing to pay such cost over the amount appropriated.

[1][6] By an act approved April 13, 1897, the home for the friendless was placed under the immediate control of the state, and an advisory board of women provided for.

In 1909, the legislature created the state public school for dependent children and located it at the home for the friendless, where, on July 2, 1909, 38 boys and 18 girls were taken charge of by the new board.

The buildings formerly occupied by the home for the friendless were transferred to the city's orthopedic hospital.