The Curtis Home’s building for elderly women, labeled “Old Ladies’ Building” in the 1906 source.
Evidence, credit & reuse: This photograph depicts the elderly women’s building, not the children’s building. Accompanying history p.58 says it formally opened in 1896. 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.57. Library of Congress copy; Internet Archive
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Silent Grounds Collective, Meriden Boys’ Home & School, SGC-MB-005, MB-010, “Curtis Home, elderly women’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.57. Library of Congress copy; Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/historicrecordpi00gill/page/n516/mode/1up. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.