Historic
National Home for Destitute Colored Women and Children
Since 1879
The National Home for Destitute Colored Women and Children, later known as the Merriweather Home for Children, was a relief association in the Pleasant Plains neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Founded in 1863 to house and educate formerly enslaved women and children who fled to Washington during the American Civil War, the organization would go on to operate for more than a century, becoming the only orphanage for African American children in the city by the 1950s.
In 2022, the National Home's former building at 733 Euclid Street N.W. was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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