It may have been an orphanage in 1860, it was a well-to-do boys school in the Fifties, however. jim corsaro James Corsaro Associate Librarian Manuscripts and Special Collections New York State Library Empire State Plaza Albany, New York 12230 e-mail: [log in to unmask] (518) 474-5963 On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 [log in to unmask] wrote: > 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. >