Please note that Protestant Home for Babies is no longer in operation. All records have been turned over to the state of Louisiana and are in Baton Rouge. Please contact the official Louisiana Adoption Registry to get yourself registered and for more information at 1-800-259-2456. I am a reunited adoptee from Protestant Home for Babies dedicated to helping others in their search for information. This is a personal website and is no way affiliated with the original Protestant Home for Babies.

Protestant Home for Babies was located in the lavish and historic Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana. It was established in 1926 by community women seeking to provide a shelter for destitute infants. In 1959, maternity services were added to provide short-term shelter for pregnant young women. The shelter continued to provide for adoptable and homeless infants. By 1974 the community's needs for maternity home services decreased and the Board of Directors discontinued the maternity and infant shelters.  A group home was established for adolescent girls in need of a nurturing home environment. In 1979, the agency's name was officially changed from Protestant Home for Babies to Raintree Services.

	Thanks to Mike B. for the pictures!

These mansions stand in the center of large grounds and rise, garlanded with roses, out of the midst of swelling masses of shining green foliage and many-colored blossoms. No houses could well be in better harmony with their surroundings, or more pleasing to the eye. -- Mark Twain, speaking of the Garden District.

Raintree Services is a non-sectarian social service organization still operating today at the same location and provides assistance to more than 400 children each year. For adoption search inquiries, they will direct you to records now held in Baton Rouge 1-800-259-2456, register and request your "non-id" at this number.