almshouse

Public general hospital originated in the almshouse infirmaries established as early as colonial times by local governments to care for the poor.

The almshouse provided shelter for the homeless.

She volunteered at the local almshouse.

The almshouse was founded in the 18th century.

Residents of the almshouse received regular meals.

The almshouse was a place of refuge for the poor.

The almshouse was funded by charitable donations.

The almshouse provided medical care for its residents.

The almshouse was a symbol of community support.

Many almshouses were built in response to social needs.

The almshouse was a place where the elderly could find companionship.

There were almshouses and almsmen everywhere.

There were “Overseers of the Poor, ” pauper auctions, and laws of settlement; and there were almshouses, “bridewells, ” and “houses of industry.”

The poorest people in the parish of Winchester in Southern England take up residence in hospitals ? ? and the almshouse of noble poverty.

The earliest social homes were almshouses—institutions for the old and decrepit built by rich benefactors with an eye on their souls.

" Peter was a bad liver, and almshouses won't cover it, when he's had the impudence to show it at the last" .

In some of the cases listed earlier, the housing assistance came in the form of private charitable donations that built shared homes for poor families (like almshouses).

I think it is the only way to keep us out of the almshouse, and I believe it to be a perfectly sure way.

In 1523, 52 houses of an estate called the Fuggerei were built by Fugger, it was originally an almshouse intended to serve as a retirement home for his aged servants.

Arabella smiled grimly as she resumed her way, and practised dimple-making all along the road from where the pollard willows begin to the old almshouses in the first street of the town.

Parallel with the city walls on Park Street is a beautiful example of 1650 timber-framed architecture, known as " The Nine Houses" , these Almshouses were built by the local merchant Thomas Aldersey to provide homes for the poor and elderly people.