The D.A. Blodgett Home For Children

This distinctive Grand Rapids home functioned as an orphanage and became a national leader in the field of child welfare. First in the nation to begin placing children in the community through the practice of foster care, the D.A. Blodgett Home also developed Camp Blodgett on Lake Michigan to afford orphans and other underprivileged children a summer camp experience.


In 1949 the Blodgett heirs donated the building to the Mary Free Bed Guild and it became known as the Mary Free Bed Hospital.