Orphanages, children's homes and other residences open in the 1870s
1870s
- Immigrants' Aid Society (1853 - c. 1902)
- Melbourne Orphan Asylum (1853 - 1926)
- Carlton Refuge (c. 1854 - 1949)
- St Vincent de Paul Orphanage (1855 - 1967)
- St Augustine's Boys' Orphanage (c. 1855 - 1939)
- Ballarat Benevolent Asylum (c. 1859 - )
- Our Lady's Orphanage (1862 - 1912)
- Geelong Protestant Orphan Asylum (1862 - 1909)
- Convent of the Good Shepherd, Abbotsford (1863 - 1971)
- St Vincent de Paul's Girls' Orphanage (c. 1864 - 1962)
- Government Reformatory for Protestant Girls (1864? - ?)
- Sunbury Industrial School (1865 - 1880?)
- Ragged Boys' Mission (1865 - 1901)
- Ballarat District Orphan Asylum (1865 - 1909)
- Ballarat Female Refuge (1867 - 1921)
- Bendigo Benevolent Asylum Industrial School (1868 - 1885)
- Bethany Babies' Home (1868 - 1977)
- The Nelson (1868 - c. 1878)
- Ballarat Industrial School (1869 - c. 1879)
- Royal Park Industrial School (1875 - c. 1887)
- The Victorian Infant Asylum (1877 - 1902)