From: Social Services Directory of Newark 1912

Maintains a Home for Aged Women at 225 Mt. Pleasant Avenue. Age limit, 65 or over. Admission fee, $200. Capacity, 57. Any nationality; colored women not received. Visiting days are Wednesdays and Fridays, from 2 to 5 PM.

From "Guide for the City of Newark - 1872"

The Society for the Relief of Aged Women is another most praiseworthy institution, which by the liberality of the public has lately been enabled to extend the shelter of its home to the deserving aged and infirm. The home composed principally of the ladies of various churches have recently erected a most beautiful building on a lot almost opposite their former location, having a frontage of one hundred feet on Mt. Pleasant Avenue, and extending two hundred feet deep to Broad. When the original home was opened in 1866, thirteen old ladies were the happy occupants, this being all the house could accommodate, but on the occasion of the dedicatory service of the new home in May last, the managers were able to say: "The friends and the public having thus warmly seconded the efforts of the managers and advisors to complete this commodious, substantial and tasteful building, they are able to announce today that thirty-eight ladies have been admitted to enjoy its comforts and blessings. Twenty-two more can be accommodated.