Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten
The Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten is a building located at 134–142 Houston Street in the Historic District of Savannah, Georgia. Built of brick, the building stands at the corner of Houston and East York Streets in the southeastern corner of Greene Square. It is currently occupied by a meditation clinic.

The building was constructed in 1801, two years after Greene Square was created. It became the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten in 1899, founded by George Johnson Baldwin (1856–1927) and his sisters, Kate (1861–1932) and Nellie (1869–1954), as a memorial to their mother, Kate A. Baldwin (1830–1898). It was incorporated in 1899 as a "benevolent and charitable institution for the free training, instruction, and education of young children under the kindergarten system of education, so as to inculcate in them habits of industry and morality and fit them for entrance into institutions of higher education."

The project was continued by George Baldwin's children, George Hull Baldwin (1883–1938) and Dorothea Irwin (1889–1977), under the direction of Martha G. Waring (1873–1943). Under the supervision of Massachusetts native Hortense M. Orcutt from 1907 for the subsequent 25 years, it grew into a popular system of kindergartens and a training school (known as the Normal Department) for kindergarten teachers, with as many as five kindergartens in operation at one time. The network educated approximately four thousand children between 1899 and 1943.

After the death of Hortense Orcutt in 1936, the training school was discontinued, but the Baldwins continued the East Side Kindergarten, and nine other kindergartens continued under the auspices of the public schools, a church and other organizations.

The Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten name was dissolved in 2001. The school subsequently became known as the Savannah Nursery School and the Montessori Pre-School.

Kate Baldwin, the wife of Daniel H. Baldwin, Sr. (1825–1887), died on November 11, 1898, aged 68. She is buried in Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery.
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