$350,000 Appeal Is Inaugurated by Methodist Church, Funds Raised Will Benefit Kelso Home for Girls and Strawbridge Home for Boys, Baltimore (Morning) Sun, December 31, 1924  The site was purchased for $300,000 from the heirs of Thomas W. Offutt who had acquired it from the Amos Matthews / Woodbine  estate, to erect the home on its 17 acres natural campus at 600 West Chesapeake avenue, Towson.