{"id":1,"ordinal":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:57:30","content_modified":"2026-04-17 19:57:30","featured":0,"title":"Orphanages, Asylums, and Almshouses","creator":"The Rhode Tour Team","description":"<p>Explore the history and development of social welfare in Rhode Island. From the early nineteenth century until the present, numerous institutions throughout the state have provided care to infants, orphans, delinquents, those with disabilities, and other underserved portions of the population. Operated by private organizations - secular and religious - as well as by public entities, these institutions tell a unique part of Rhode Island's history.</p>","postscript_text":"","tour_img":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/fullsize/79366ce13c264ef644f75f2810654e6e.jpg","items":[{"id":1,"title":"\"Let us Build a Home for such Children\"","latitude":41.843829999999996971382643096148967742919921875,"longitude":-71.4569069000000354208168573677539825439453125,"thumbnail":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/square_thumbnails/79366ce13c264ef644f75f2810654e6e.jpg","fullsize":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/fullsize/79366ce13c264ef644f75f2810654e6e.jpg","subtitle":"Rhode Island State Home and School for Dependent and Neglected Children","address":"600 Mt Pleasant Ave\r\nProvidence, RI 02908","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":2,"title":"\"Her Mother's Triumph\"","latitude":41.8282463000000035435732570476830005645751953125,"longitude":-71.39702080000000705695128999650478363037109375,"thumbnail":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/square_thumbnails/00a77da99e1306afae611d82b61a7fb7.jpg","fullsize":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/fullsize/00a77da99e1306afae611d82b61a7fb7.jpg","subtitle":"Jeanie Lippitt Weeden","address":"Governor Henry Lippitt House Museum\r\n199 Hope St\r\nProvidence, RI 02906","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":3,"title":"\"A Hospital Where Kids Had Fun\"","latitude":41.78577700000000305635694530792534351348876953125,"longitude":-71.38135499999998501152731478214263916015625,"thumbnail":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/square_thumbnails/807e47acd614b20e84608a58e3146ecf.jpg","fullsize":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/fullsize/807e47acd614b20e84608a58e3146ecf.jpg","subtitle":"Sunshine Island","address":"Save the Bay Center, Save the Bay Dr, Providence, RI 02905","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":26,"title":"\"Positively Irrepressible!\"","latitude":41.82728920000000272239049081690609455108642578125,"longitude":-71.400555899999972098157741129398345947265625,"thumbnail":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/square_thumbnails/c2734dc83f8180cb35a2d6811e5491d2.jpg","fullsize":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/fullsize/c2734dc83f8180cb35a2d6811e5491d2.jpg","subtitle":"Irrepressible Society","address":"Thayer St. and Waterman St. Providence RI 02906","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":27,"title":"\"Rosy Cheeks and Cheery Voices\"","latitude":41.72729919999999737001417088322341442108154296875,"longitude":-71.4112731999999823528924025595188140869140625,"thumbnail":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/square_thumbnails/5c760470ef679d0c2df1e9262619bb04.jpg","fullsize":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/fullsize/5c760470ef679d0c2df1e9262619bb04.jpg","subtitle":"Lakeside Home and Preventorium","address":"86 Zachariah Pl\r\nWarwick, RI 02889","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":28,"title":"\"A Farm Suitable for Keeping the Poor\"","latitude":41.5819570999999967853000271134078502655029296875,"longitude":-71.19203930000003310851752758026123046875,"thumbnail":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/square_thumbnails/4358dc7fab8ef92c0cb49afff9f595fd.jpg","fullsize":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/fullsize/4358dc7fab8ef92c0cb49afff9f595fd.jpg","subtitle":"Tiverton Town Farm","address":"3658 Main Rd\r\nTiverton, RI 02878","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":43,"title":"\"Watchman, what of the night?\"","latitude":41.83417399999999730653144069947302341461181640625,"longitude":-71.58300189999999929568730294704437255859375,"thumbnail":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/square_thumbnails/fc1049c908a30ce2bfe4614147554ed2.jpg","fullsize":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/fullsize/fc1049c908a30ce2bfe4614147554ed2.jpg","subtitle":"Watchman Industrial School","address":"29 Institute Ln\r\nScituate, RI 02857","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":29,"title":"\"From Broken or Badly Bent Homes\"","latitude":41.75662899999999666533767594955861568450927734375,"longitude":-71.45939829999997527920641005039215087890625,"thumbnail":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/square_thumbnails/10eb1e3fa44b312b478c0999c4401a8b.jpg","fullsize":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/fullsize/10eb1e3fa44b312b478c0999c4401a8b.jpg","subtitle":"Sockanosset School for Boys","address":"3000 Chapel View Blvd\r\nCranston, RI 02920","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":44,"title":"\"Not Wanted by His Father and Mother\"","latitude":41.838898000000000365616870112717151641845703125,"longitude":-71.40479800000002796878106892108917236328125,"thumbnail":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/square_thumbnails/690b7b91739e56349c3337f5a65388cc.jpg","fullsize":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/fullsize/690b7b91739e56349c3337f5a65388cc.jpg","subtitle":"Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children","address":"94 Doyle Ave\r\nProvidence, RI 02906","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":45,"title":"\"To Rescue from Evil and Misery Those Deprived of their Natural Protectors\"","latitude":41.81986599999999754118107375688850879669189453125,"longitude":-71.4361380000000281143002212047576904296875,"thumbnail":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/square_thumbnails/8265d94b769a87cbbb0650c9f65536af.jpg","fullsize":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/fullsize/8265d94b769a87cbbb0650c9f65536af.jpg","subtitle":"Providence Children's Friend Society","address":"25 Tobey St\r\nProvidence, RI 02909","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}}]}