The Kessler Building

New York · USA · School

An orphanage stood here. The third and fourth floors were where the children slept, and the attic was where they were sent for punishment.

The Kessler Administration Building at D'Youville in Buffalo, New York produces reports on the third and fourth floors and in the attic, and the reason given is what the building used to be.

An orphanage stood here. The children slept on the third and fourth floors.

The attic was where they were taken to be punished.

Children are what people see in the building, and they are seen on the floors where the children slept.

Institutional care of orphaned children in nineteenth century American cities was harsh by design. Buffalo had several such homes, run by religious orders and by the city, and the discipline in them was physical and routine.

It is worth knowing that the college is named for Marguerite d'Youville, who founded an order in Montreal in the 1730s specifically to take in the abandoned and the destitute.

The building is in daily use by staff and students.

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