The Bethlehem Orphan and Half Orphan Asylum, later known as the Bethlehem Children’s Home, and the Lutheran Child Welfare Association, 1886-1972, located in Union Hill, NJ, then College Point, Queens, NY, and finally in Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, NY.
- Historic and Ethnographic research
- Oral histories
- Digitization of archival materials
- Community Participatory Research
Simone Monique Barnes 
6 responses to “The Bethlehem Project”
Im interested in your bethlehem project,,I was aresident there from 1956 to 1964
Dear Bill. My name is john zebro I also lived there from 1950 to1956. I am now all most 71 and would love to just talk and sharecmemories.my email is oowee95@aol.com . Would you remember mrs kruz,Mr lessons,Mr and Mrs bennington ,and so much more. thank you for any consideration john
Greetings! I am a librarian at the St. George Branch of the The New York Public Library. Today a man who grew up at the Bethlehem Lutheran Children’s Home came looking for pictures and other information. He was visiting from Georgia. If you have information/materials of interest to him, please contact me. We found the picture of the postcard. That is all.
Burnette “Birdie” Crosley(now Wilson) I am also interested in your project (resident from 1954-1959)
I grew up in the Bethlehem Lutheran children’s Home ..In Staten Island New York. Where can o get a picture of the home? …with the hill and the house.
My names is James Sparrow, Jr.
My cell is (336) 893-5779
My email is JamesSparrow000@gmail.comm
Would greatly appreciate it. It’s a crucial part of my story. Thank you.
hi ms barnes
like mr. Nagy, i am an alumnus.
perhaps he remembers me. bradley.
we were in full attendance from 1950 till 1959.
i just received some source material from the director’s wife, who died a
short time ago, lillian bennington.
add me to your list of contacts.
bradley sherman
would love to know from whom the land was purchased. some 20 acres, predominantly woods. and if there were any structures which were transferred from the seller.