Jewish Orphan Asylum     ŠJewish Encyclopedia

Built in 1848 on Sawtell Avenue (now East 51st Street), south of Woodland Avenue, as The Cleveland Water Cure Establishment. In 1868 B'nai B'rith bought it for $25,000 to use for Jewish orphans of the Civil War. In 1929 the institution moved to Belvoir Road and Fairmount Blvd. in University Heights and became known as Bellefaire. See ECH for more. 

The Orthodox Jewish Children's Home opened in 1920 to raise children in "an Orthodox Jewish spirit". more ...