Women's Missionary Society of the Pacific Coast

Otis T. Gibson,[1] with eleven women he recruited in August 1870, for the purpose of working among the slave girls in Chinatown, San Francisco, California.

The school mainly taught English and other necessary skills to Chinese and Japanese women and girls who had been rescued from slavery or prostitution in San Francisco Chinatown.

[2]After the great quake and fire, Julia Morgan designed the replacement residence, a new three-story brick building with accommodations for 60 to 70 girls -- orphaned, rescued or abandoned.

It was built at 940 Washington Street in San Francisco Chinatown and was dedicated by the Women's Home Missionary Society in 1912.

[5] Later in the 1940s, the three-story brick building at 940 Washington Street, designed by Julia Morgan for the "Oriental Home", was renamed the Gum Moon Women's Residence.