In a message dated 97-08-27 12:33:23 EDT, you write: << I grew up in Niagara Falls, and when I was a kid, the school was known as the Deveaux School and was not an orphanage, but a school for the "rich kids," that is, a school for well-to-do boys; no girls.It closed sometime in the 60s or 7 >> The 1860 Census for New York calls it a school for orphaned boys.