Archives Closed Schools N-P: Ormsby Village School

Other Name: Louisville and Jefferson County Children's Home School, Ormsby Village Treatment Center

Last Address: LaGrange Road

Year Opened: 1925

Year Closed: 1979

The children's home bore several names in its history.  Beginning as the Parental Home and School in Jefferson County in 1912, the home merged with the Louisville Industrial School of Reform (formerly the Louisville House of Refuge) to form the Louisville and Jefferson County Children's Home.  After moving to LaGrange Road in Lyndon on the old Ormsby family farm, the home became Ormsby Village.  The home served both dependent and delinquent children.  A separate home, Ridgewood, also operated on the site for African-American children and had its own school.  Ridgewood's home and school were merged into the Ormsby Village home in the early 1960's, ending segregation at the site.  In 1968 the home became the Ormsby Village Treatment Center for delinquent children only.  The home originally operated its own school but educational services were later provided by JCPS.  After the closure of the treatment center, Jefferson County government used the buildings for various offices during the 1980s.  The property was developed as the Hurstbourne Green office park in the late 1980s and all the institutional buildings were razed.  The Ormsby family home, Bellevoir, remained.