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United States historic place
Carson College for Orphan Girls
, also known as
Carson Valley School
, is a historic
school
complex and national
historic district
located in
Flourtown
,
Springfield Township
,
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
. The buildings remain in active use by the same institution, now
coeducational
and named
Carson Valley Children's Aid
.
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The district encompasses nine contributing buildings. They are an assemblage of low-scale,
Tudor Revival
style structures built between 1917 and 1932. It includes the Mother Goose Cottage (1917-1920), Red Gables Cottage (1917-1920), Stork Hill (1918), Thistle Cottage (1917-1920), Upper Beech Cottage (c. 1930), Lower Beech Cottage (c. 1930), Beech Branch Cottage (c. 1930), a garage (1917-1920), and a shop / storehouse (1932). The campus was designed by architect
Albert Kelsey
(1870-1950) to be reminiscent of a 16th-century English village.
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It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
in 1991.
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The school
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Founded in 1917 by
Philadelphia
philanthropists Robert and Isabel Carson, the school was renamed Carson Valley Children's Aid (CVCA) after a 2008 merger with the
Norristown
-based Children's Aid Society. CVCA provides regular and
special
education,
behavioral therapy
and
psychotherapy
for 6th?12th grade boys and girls who have
behavioral disorders
or
mental illnesses
, in
residential
as well as day school programs.
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