This Day in History: 1997-12-10

PUEBLO COLORED ORPHANAGE AND OLD FOLKS HOME / LINCOLN HOME
at 2713-2715 N. Grand Ave., Pueblo was designated as a Colorado Historic Site.

Constructed between 1889 and 1904, the two houses were purchased in 1914 to serve as the Lincoln Home. In operation until 1963, Pueblo’s entire black
community took an interest in the property’s management. It served as the only known orphanage of its type in Colorado, and the sixteen Federated Colored Women’s Clubs throughout the state supported its operation. Colorado black women’s clubs raised much of the necessary funding by holding card parties, bake sales and rummage sales, selling home cooked dinners, and staging dances.