This old, long since demolished, building was in the news this week in a sad story about abuse during its days as the Mount Herbert Protestant Orphanage. I decided to make a link to this story and show the building referred to. The orphanage was established in 1907 and in 1922 moved to this new impressive brick structure on a large treed lots in the rural community of Mount Herbert, east of Stratford, near the Hillsborough River.
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2012-12-14/article-3140311/Residents-of-PEI-orphanage-share-486400-settlement/1
The Orphanage was designed and built in 1920-21 by well-known Charlottetown Architect Edward Stirling (Bone) Blanchard (1886-1953). See website for more information about him: http://www.gov.pe.ca/hpo/index.php3?number=1028089&lang=E
Below is an early image of the orphanage - both images here cf. the Guardian Newspaper article.
The orphanage closed in 1975 and demolished in 1998 to make way for a new Provincial Addictions Treatment Centre.
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