Curtis Home, Children’s Building

The Curtis Home’s Children’s Building in a photograph published in 1906. The accompanying history dates its dedication to June 28, 1884.

Evidence, credit & reuse: Curtis Home is a separate institution from the Connecticut School for Boys. Dedication citation is volume II p.53, reader n512 / scan leaf513. Internet Archive metadata: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT; 1906 US publication. Photographers and engraving artists are uncredited on selected pages. Full scan retained; resized and JPEG compressed. Landscape plates rotated 90 degrees to reading orientation. No generative alteration.

Source: Charles Bancroft Gillespie and George Munson Curtis; An historic record and pictorial description of the town of Meriden, Connecticut and men who have made it (A Century of Meriden), volume II. Volume II, p.56. Library of Congress copy; Internet Archive

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Curtis Home, Children’s Building — Charles Bancroft Gillespie and George Munson Curtis; An historic record and pictorial description of the town of Meriden, Connecticut and men who have made it (A Century of Meriden), volume II. Volume II, p.56. Library of Congress copy; Internet Archive. Published 1906; exposure date unknown. Open the full image to inspect small print.

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Silent Grounds Collective, Meriden Boys’ Home & School, SGC-MB-005, MB-009, “Curtis Home, Children’s Building.” Source: Charles Bancroft Gillespie and George Munson Curtis; An historic record and pictorial description of the town of Meriden, Connecticut and men who have made it (A Century of Meriden), volume II. Volume II, p.56. Library of Congress copy; Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/historicrecordpi00gill/page/n515/mode/1up. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.

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