The McClelland name is expanding its web presence lately, and I’m pretty sure the McClelland School didn’t have a web site the last time I googled our monicker. This school in Pueblo, Colorado was created in 1905 as a home for “dependent children.”

It was considered one of the best institutions of its kind in the country. By 1908, the building was filled to capacity. The orphanage was forced to turn deserving children away. The annual operating budget had reached $6,000 for sheltering the children. Fundraising efforts fell short of their goal to provide the needed capital to make additions to the facility. A donation of property valued at $10,000 was presented to the orphanage by Mrs. Lizzie Welsh of Los Angeles, California. Plans for the addition were started.