Crossword clues for almshouse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Almshouse \Alms"house`\, n. A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A building of residence for the poor, sick or elderly of a parish. Originally founded by the Christian. Usually a charity relying on donations for funding.
Wikipedia
Almshouses are charitable housing provided to enable people (typically elderly people who can no longer work to earn enough to pay rent) to live in a particular community. They are often targeted at the poor of a locality, at those from certain forms of previous employment, or their widows, and are generally maintained by a charity or the trustees of a bequest.
The Almshouse is an historic almshouse located at 45 Matignon Road in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is now the site of the International School of Boston's main campus.
It is a large three-story stone structure with modest Greek Revival styling. It has a central octagonal administrative section from which four wings of varying sizes radiate. The building was built out of slate quarried on site, with dressed dark granite corner quoining. The building was designed by architect Gridley J.F. Bryant and prison reform expert Rev. Louis Dwight. A similar design was used by Bryant for Boston's Charles Street Jail (built in 1848). The building was the fifth and final instance of an almshouse built by the city.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, where it is incorrectly listed at 41 Orchard Street.
The Almshouse is a historic almshouse at 136 Elm Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts, and one of the few surviving structures of the type in the Greater Boston area. The 2.5 story wood frame house was built in 1852 with minimal Greek Revival styling, principally the sidelights around the front door. A hood that shelters the entrance is a later addition, and the building has been further extended in the 20th century.
The building was built in 1852 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is currently operated by the Stoneham Council on Aging as the Stoneham Senior Center.
An almshouse is charitable housing that is provided to enable people to live in a particular community.
Specific places named Almshouse include:
In the United States (by state then city):
- Greene County Almshouse, Carrolton, Illinois, listed on the NRHP in Illinois
- Carroll County Almshouse and Farm, Westminster, Maryland, listed on the NRHP in Maryland
- Almshouse (Cambridge, Massachusetts), listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts
- Rockland Almshouse, Rockland, Massachusetts, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts
- Almshouse (Stoneham, Massachusetts), listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts
- Poughkeepsie Almshouse and City Infirmary, Poughkeepsie, New York, listed on the NRHP in New York
- Bedford County Alms House, Pennsylvania
- Almshouse Farm at Machipongo, Machipongo, Virginia, listed on the NRHP in Virginia
- The Almshouse (Richmond, Virginia), listed on the NRHP in Virginia
Usage examples of "almshouse".
We have been informed, sir, that there is an annual rent charged on the land of Hautbois, for the endowment and repair of an almshouse.
The manorial farm of Hautbois, now occupied by Farmer Seedling, is charged with the endowment and maintenance of an almshouse.
Dom Tower, and climbed its four hundred and sixty-five steps, and probably you had time to pay a visit to the Central Museum and take a quick peep at the Brutenhof Almshouses as well.
Celine was taken on a barge tour through the canals, a brisk view of the Dam Palace and the Dam Square, lunch in the Bijenkorf store, so that they could have a quick look round its enticing wares, a glimpse of the Beginjnhof, a group of charming almshouses tucked away behind Kalverstraat, and an even briefer glimpse of the Rijksmuseum, but only from the outside.
Together they fed the swans, till the birds went on a dyspepsia-strike, together they played billiards, together they photographed the village almshouses, and, at a respectful distance, the tame elk that browsed in solitary aloofness in the park.
Working with high-pressure hoses in total darkness they had swept a number of inadequately clothed old-age pensioners who had escaped from the almshouses down the street before turning their attention to the Public Library which they had filled with foam.
I take from the top shelf of the hospital department of my librarythe section devoted to literary cripples, imbeciles, failures, foolish rhymesters, and silly eccentrics--one of the least conspicuous and most hopelessly feeble of the weak-minded population of that intellectual almshouse.
I think it is the only way to keep us out of the almshouse, and I believe it to be a perfectly sure way.
First came the published cases of the American clergymen, brigadiergenerals, almshouse governors, representatives, attorneys, and esquires.
Even at a much later time the inmate of the almshouse of a London guild sat this day by the side of the rich alderman.
Weg and proceeded in the direction of the Almshouse and Orphanage along the grounds of the Langfuhr fire department.
He was pottering with five figures that looked like the orphans from the Almshouse and Orphanage.
And so Amsel invited the Almshouse children to his garden and dispensed charitable gifts in exchange.
For, when I consider whereunto the gifts of fellowship in some places are grown, the profit that ariseth at sundry elections of scholars out of grammar schools to the posers, schoolmasters, and preferers of them to our universities, the gifts of a great number of almshouses builded for the maimed and impotent soldiers by princes and good men heretofore moved with a pitiful consideration of the poor distressed, how rewards, pensions, and annuities also do reign in other cases whereby the giver is brought sometimes into extreme misery, and that not so much as the room of a common soldier is not obtained oftentimes without a "What will you give me?
It also meant a good chance of having to open the battle with a frontal assault on the West Gap, which didn't appeal to Kalvan even if he did have the edge in numbers and many of the Harphaxi were the scourings of every dive and almshouse in Hos-Harphax and Hos-Agrys.