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The Waldo Burton Memorial Boys Home is located on 3320 S Carrollton Avenue, very close to the campus of Xavier University of Louisiana. The Waldo Burton Memorial Boys Home was built by William L. Burton in 1918, who named the Home after his son William Waldo Burton. This Home was originally a home/orphanage for young orphaned boys in the 1920s till the 21st Century. Now it has been transitioned into a retirement home for the elderly. The Waldo Burton Memorial Boys Home is still standing to this day surrounded by trees, and lots of nightlife, even through Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters to hit Gert Town. Currently community service is provided to the elderly whenever high school or college students apply to help. In Gert Town there aren’t many landmarks that stand out and that are known around Louisiana and or the New Orleans area. So in this immediate vicinity of Gert Town, this is one of the few old and historic places that is known to this community. There were many names for the home such as the Orphan Boys Asylum, or Asylum for the Relief of Destitute Orphan Boys.