terms at the facility. However, funding had dried up, and by 1921, the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children leased the building while it built a permanent home on Fifth Avenue between 105th and 106th Streets. Children had previously been jailed with adults or at stationhouses pending judicial action. The following year, the average daily population was 152 and the average stay eight days. The Society moved to Valhalla, New York, and sold the Manhattan property in sections to the City of New York between 1915 and 1926. By 1933 the structures had become decrepit, although a caretaker had moved in (with his family of 10 children). Squatters also moved in: some farming the grounds, others establishing a colony with houseboats on the Hudson River. The city government drove out the squatters and tore down the main building in 1933. The caretaker and his family moved out when his cottage collapsed on December 9, 1933. The property became Inwood Hill Park with the assistance of workers from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression. By 1950 the park had been extended into the Hudson River. References Further reading Morgan Dix, Harriet Starr Cannon: First Mother Superior of the Sisterhood of St. Mary, 1896. Sister Mary Hilary CSM, Ten Decades of Praise: The Story of the Community of Saint Mary during Its First Century, Racine, Wisconsin, 1965. 19th-century American Episcopalian nuns 1823 births 1896 deaths Clergy from Charleston, South Carolina Burials in New York (state) 19th-century American clergy