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    An almshouse (also known as a bede-house, poorhouse, or hospital) is charitable housing provided to people in a particular community, especially during...
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  • County Almshouse, Carrollton, Illinois Carroll County Almshouse and Farm, Westminster, Maryland Almshouse (Cambridge, Massachusetts) Rockland Almshouse, Rockland...
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    The Tollemache Almshouses, also known as the Wilbraham Almshouses or Wilbraham's Almshouses, are six former almshouses in Nantwich, Cheshire, England...
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    Hudson Almshouse, also known as the Hudson Lunatic Asylum, Hudson Orphan and Relief Association, and Hudson Area Association Library, is a historic almshouse...
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    Garrett's Almshouses are Grade II listed almshouses on Wood Street, Chipping Barnet. The houses were constructed in 1729. Historic England. "53, GARRETT'S...
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    The Hungerford Almshouses in Corsham, Wiltshire, England, were built in 1668 for Lady Margaret Hungerford of Corsham Court. It has been designated as a...
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    Skiddy's Almshouse is the oldest inhabited building in the city of Cork. It was built in 1718 and finished in 1719. It was the second almshouse built using...
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    Philadelphia Almshouse (not to be confused with the Friends' Almshouse, established 1713). Philadelphia General Hospital closed in 1977. The Blockley Almshouse had...
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    The Rockland Almshouse is a historic almshouse at 198 Spring Street in Rockland, Massachusetts. The large 2+1⁄2-story L-shaped building was built in 1876...
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    The Almshouse, also known as the City Home is a historic almshouse and hospital complex located in Richmond, Virginia. The Richmond Almshouse and hospital...
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  • almshouses. It includes historial almshouses (some of which are no longer in use as charitable housing) and new-build almshouses. Bedford Almshouses,...
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    Church of St. John's almshouse (Estonian: Tallinna Jaani seegi kirik) is a wooden church in Tallinn, Estonia. Since 1999 the building is designated as...
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    The Norris Almshouses were erected in 1893 on Berridge Road in Sherwood Rise, Nottinghamshire. They comprise a row of eight one-bedroom houses for Ladies...
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    County Almshouse is a historic poorhouse located in Greene County, Illinois, along a township road northeast of the city of Carrollton. The almshouse was...
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  • Wilbraham Almshouses or Wilbraham's Almshouses may refer to any of several almshouses founded by members of the Wilbraham family, including: Old Maids'...
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    Tewksbury Hospital (category Almshouses in the United States)
    in 1852, Tewksbury Hospital was originally established as a Tewksbury Almshouse (along with similar facilities in Monson and Bridgewater), opening in...
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    orphaned persons in the community until c. 1960[when?]. The goal of the almshouse was to both help break the cycle of poverty and to care for members of...
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    not far from the old site of the Almshouse, honoring the 850 who died during the Famine Era. In 1896, the almshouse facility became one of the short-term...
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  • Crewe Almshouses or Crewe's Almshouses may refer to several almshouses founded by members of the Crewe family, including: Crewe Almshouses, Nantwich, Cheshire:...
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    Almshouses were established as charitable housing for the elderly in Maryland. Conditions were generally quite poor due to the lack of care and funding...
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  • The Friends' Almshouse of Philadelphia was founded in 1713 by the city's Quaker leadership to help destitute members of the Society of Friends, although...
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    Estbury (1508), who founded the almshouses outside, and fine effigies of Sir Thomas Essex and his wife (1558). The almshouses were established by an Act of...
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    The Yorke Almshouses, Nos. 14–17 Church Row, Forthampton, Gloucestershire, England, are a range of four almshouses designed by the architect William Burges...
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    Almshouse Green is a hamlet in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It is located between the villages of Wethersfield & Sible Hedingham. Media related...
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    Almshouse Farm at Machipongo, now known as the Barrier Islands Center, is a historic almshouse for Northampton County residents. Residents, also known...
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    Penrose's Almshouses are 17th-century almshouses in Litchdon Street, Barnstaple, in Devon, England, built in memory of John Penrose (1575–1624), a merchant...
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    The Hospital of St Cross and Almshouse of Noble Poverty is a medieval almshouse in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It has been described as "England's...
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    The Bridges Almshouses in Keynsham within the English county of Somerset were built around 1685. They have been designated as a Grade II listed building...
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  • William Portman Almshouses in Staple Fitzpaine, Somerset, England was built in 1643. It is a Grade II* listed building. The almshouses were established...
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    1600s, it was officially founded on the second floor of the New York City Almshouse in 1736, 40 years before the American Revolution." "New York City Health...
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