Almshouse - Wikipedia An almshouse (also known as a bede-house, poorhouse, or hospital) [1][2] is charitable housing provided to people in a particular community, especially during the Middle Ages
Social Welfare History Project Poor Relief and the Almshouse A famous story by Sarah Orne Jewett describes a small Maine almshouse where elderly people came by choice each winter to avoid paying their heating bills and to have comradeship (Jewett, 1956)
History of almshouses - The Almshouse Association Almshouses are often splendid historic buildings with fascinating features such as dedications, statues, inscriptions, coats of arms, clock towers and sundials Many retain beautiful chapels where regular services are still held and provide delightful gardens for their residents
Almshouses (Poorhouses) - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia From the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century, almshouses offered food, shelter, clothing, and medical care to the poorest and most vulnerable, often in exchange for hard labor and forfeiture of freedom
Almshouse | Origins, Uses Impact | Britannica Almshouse, in the United States, a locally administered public institution that provided housing and health care to people who were of limited financial means and were otherwise disadvantaged
Almshouses: What they are, how they were created and why they . . . Although the school left smoky London for the green fields of Surrey in 1872, the almshouse remains, providing a home to 40 old men and (since 2018) women They live as a community, able to go out whenever they like, but eating meals in the 15th-century great hall if they wish to