An almshouse is a building of residence for the poor, sick or elderly of a parish, usually a charity relying on donations for funding.
Blockley Almshouse was created in 1832.
Suffolk County Almshouse Barn was created in 1871.
Anne Sullivan went to the Tewksbury Almshouse in Massachusetts as a child. She was at the almshouse before being transferred to the Perkins School for the Blind where she eventually met and taught Helen Keller.
It was a place for the poor people of Whitgift to say .
A beadhouse is a historical term for an almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.
A bedehouse is an alternative term for a beadhouse - an almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.
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In 1876 Annie and James were sent to an almshouse. Several months later James Sullivan died from a tubercular hip.
Walter H. Godfrey has written: 'The English staircase' 'The Priory of St. Pancras, Lewes' 'A history of architecture in and around London' 'The English almshouse' 'At the sign of the Bull, Lewes'
L. M. Humbert has written: 'Memorials of the Hospital of St. Cross and Alms House of Noble Poverty' -- subject(s): Hospital of St. Cross and Almshouse of Noble Poverty
it was made in ham common with lots lots houses all attached together with windows and chimneys. The word alms also means charity in old fashioned kind of language so it was probably built for people that had no homes.
The garden, with its languid pools and dangling vines, was the most peaceful spot on the estate. The Queen dismissed her courtiers with a languid wave of her hand. It was his compassion for the weary, the sore distressed, the sick, the listless, and the languid poor of Victorian England that led John Mason Neale to become warden of an almshouse, and to help found the nursing Society of Saint Margaret.