Overview

The All Saints Home for Boys opened on 1 November 1896 in Austin, Illinois.[1] Today, Austin is a neighborhood of Chicago. The home opened with six boys, who were, for about a year, boarded out.[2] In May 1897, the home was moved to Ohio Street in Austin and a year following that, the Home was moved to 19 Bishop Court in Chicago where it stayed for two years. By 1903, the organization appealed to Mrs. George W. Champlin, who gave her home at 1508 West Adams Street to Rev. William E. McLaren for the purpose of maintaining a permanent home for boys.[3] Her donation enabled the institution to care for more residents than for in a leased building, so in 1903, a corporation was formed known as the “William Raymond Champlin Memorial Home for Boys.”[4]

Institution Name and Type

Object/Goal: “The object of the Home from the first was preventive rather than reformatory, and any blameless boy was gladly admitted whether he could pay board or not.”[5]

Type of Institution: Dependent : Children

Location and Building

Address:

• 1896-May 1897: Austin (Chicago), Illinois[6]
• May 1897-1898: Ohio Street, Austin (Chicago), Illinois[7]
• 1898-1903: 19 Bishop Court[8] (19 N. Bishop—today’s address)

Locality: Chicago

County: Cook

State: Illinois

Administration Information

Date of Founding: 1896[9][10]

Dates of Name, Place, Mission Change, or Merger: 1903

Successor: William Raymond Champlin Home for Boys

Administration: Board of Trustees[11]

• Auxiliary Board of Women Managers selected to care for the maintenance of the boys and their support and education.[12]

Notable People

Intake Information and Requirements

Intake Gender/Sex: Male

Intake Age: Children

Records

See Champlin.

Online

Annual Reports

Chicago Home for Boys. 1913. Chicago Home for Boys, Annual Report 1913. Chicago: Chicago Home for Boys. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Report/ty8nAQAAMAAJ. 

Sources

Chicago Home for Boys. 1913. Chicago Home for Boys, Annual Report 1913. Chicago: Chicago Home for Boys. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Report/ty8nAQAAMAAJ. 

United States Bureau of the Census. 1905. Benevolent Institutions 1904. Washington, D. C.: Governmental Printing Office. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Benevolent_Institutions_1904/GKpMAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0.

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[1] Chicago Home for Boys. 1913. Chicago Home for Boys, Annual Report 1913. Chicago: Chicago Home for Boys. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Report/ty8nAQAAMAAJ. 5.

[2] Chicago Home for Boys, 1913. 5.

[3] Chicago Home for Boys, 1913. 7.

[4] Chicago Home for Boys, 1913. 7.

[5] Chicago Home for Boys, 1913. 5.

[6] Chicago Home for Boys, 1913. 5.

[7] Chicago Home for Boys, 1913. 5.

[8] Chicago Home for Boys, 1913. 5.

[9] United States Bureau of the Census. 1905. Benevolent Institutions 1904. Washington, D. C.: Governmental Printing Office. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Benevolent_Institutions_1904/GKpMAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. 66.

[10] Chicago Home for Boys, 1913. 5.

[11] Chicago Home for Boys, 1913. 5.

[12] Chicago Home for Boys, 1913. 5.