Could the place you mentioned on 12th Avenue East be what I remember being called Carmel Heights? I grew up near there and remember being told that it was originally a convent and later a home for "unwed mothers" (that would've been in the late 60's or early 70's). Maybe Shirley can confirm this but I believe that the original Calvary Cemetary was located behind there. When we were kids, we'd picnic on the hill behind Carmel Heights (now a montessori school) and I remember seeing a headstone on the hill. > > Subject: [MNSTLOUI] LOOKING FOR SOME HELP > Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:28:16 -0500 > From: "Marilyn Deloach Elliott" <mightymare@prodigy.net> > To: MNSTLOUI-L@rootsweb.com > > 1909...would there have been a home where an illegitimate child would have been born or placed? I have someone whose story is that > a child was born in the family but the couple didn't marry until a short time later and they retrieved the child from the orphanage or foundling home..probably within a year. > I know there is a home on like 12th Ave E > and 9th st. or so ...that when i was in high school we thought it was a home for unwed mothers. > > any thoughts? > Marilyn

Being kind of a geezer, I'll put my two cents in here. There was a home for unwed mothers in the 50's at 13th ave E. and 9th St. I never knew who ran it. It was one of those things that were not talked about those days, especially to parents. The girls who stayed there were quite friendly to young boys, as I recall. They called to us from their upper floor windows. I doubt that they were ever allowed out of doors. At 12th Avenue E, above Kenwood was the Corpus Christi Carmelite Convent. It had many Incarnations. It started out as a home for crippled children and ultimately became Corpus Christi, then something else, then sold to a Protestant group, and then apparently became a Montessori school as mentioned below. The original Duluth Catholic Cemetery was located near it. It was abandoned in the 1890's and all bodies were ultimately moved to the new Calvary or to the new Polish Cemetery. Or so they say. Some fairly reputable people have told me that some bodies were probably never moved. I understand they are building homes there now. Ray Marshall Formerly of 1024 E 11th St. (both areas were my playgrounds) -----Original Message----- From: Julie Goddard [mailto:jgoddard@uswest.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 8:16 PM To: MNSTLOUI-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MNSTLOUI] Re: Looking for some help.. Could the place you mentioned on 12th Avenue East be what I remember being called Carmel Heights? I grew up near there and remember being told that it was originally a convent and later a home for "unwed mothers" (that would've been in the late 60's or early 70's). Maybe Shirley can confirm this but I believe that the original Calvary Cemetary was located behind there. When we were kids, we'd picnic on the hill behind Carmel Heights (now a montessori school) and I remember seeing a headstone on the hill. > > Subject: [MNSTLOUI] LOOKING FOR SOME HELP > Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:28:16 -0500 > From: "Marilyn Deloach Elliott" <mightymare@prodigy.net> > To: MNSTLOUI-L@rootsweb.com > > 1909...would there have been a home where an illegitimate child would have been born or placed? I have someone whose story is that > a child was born in the family but the couple didn't marry until a short time later and they retrieved the child from the orphanage or foundling home..probably within a year. > I know there is a home on like 12th Ave E > and 9th st. or so ...that when i was in high school we thought it was a home for unwed mothers. > > any thoughts? > Marilyn