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It was created on New York's Lower East Side on December 5 , 1912 , when a group raised 64 toward establishing a Jewish orthodox home for the care of orphaned and destitute Jewish boys. On October 14 , 1913 , a committee of the Bessarabian Verband, a group of Romanian Jews paid the first installment of $400 for the premises at 57 East 7th Street. On June 7 , 1914 HNOH House officially opened with accommodations for 50 boys. They bought a second tenement houses that backed to each other creating an enclosed courtyard. On July 15 , 1919 the Tuckahoe Road facility was purchased for $300,000 in Yonkers, New York and it opened on July 26 , 1920 . In 1947, it changed its name to Homecrest then it merged with the Gustave Hartman home for children in 1956 under the name of Hartman-Homecrest and in early 1962 Hartman-Homecrest was merged into the Jewish Child Care Association (JCCA) of New York and the name HNOH after 60 years, was no longer used. Official website |
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