Exterior of Children's Home Society of Washington, David Fisher Center. The Children's Home Society of Washington, an adoption agency, was located in a one-story contemporary styled building at 201 So. 34th St. near Pacific Ave. The new West Central District office, named after the late David Fisher, trustee at the time of his death, would hold an open house on April 5, 1964. The Society was founded in 1896 by Rev. and Mrs. H.D. Brown who set out to create a statewide organization to find homes for homeless children. Rather than placing children in orphanages, they sought to provide foster families for them. More than 22,000 children have been placed in adoptive homes since the Society's founding. Throughout the Sixties, its adoption and unmarried parent services were its best known. However, with the numbers of children placed for adoption dropping, it re-directed its energy towards providing residential treatment for school-age children as well as assisting parents in providing adequate care so that their children would not be removed from their homes. There are Children's Home Societies in Seattle and Spokane. 40 years after this photograph was taken, the CHS in Tacoma remains at the same address. (www.chs-wa.org, TNT 3-29-64, A-13)

Children's Home Society of Washington (Tacoma); Adoption--Tacoma;