Just started reading my 20th volume of Milwaukee City & County history, The Story of Bay View by Bernard C. Korn, principal of the high school. He states, on page 101: As early as 1850, Bishop Henni had provided for an orphanage to be operated by his diocese. This institution, first located in temporary quarters in Milwaukee and operated by the Sisters of Charity, was soon moved to the St. Francis site and placed under the Sisters of St. Francis. An "unpretentious fram house erected in 1854" was the first of many buildings to serve the orphanage, now known as St. Aemillanus Orphan Asylum, over the coming years. The Reverend M. M. Gerend later recalled, "In 1861 and 1866, the number of orpahsn having increased to about eighty-five, additions were built which again proved insufficient in 1973. Then a large brick building was put up at a cost of about $15,000." With the establishment of the orphanage at St. Francis, the religious community enjoyed its frist real growth. However, when Wisconsin's first institution for the training of Roman Catholic priests was also located there in the 1850's, the community's development was significantly enhanced.