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Taunton Alms House
Taunton Alms House (now Taunton Nursing Home)
Taunton Alms House is located in Massachusetts
Taunton Alms House
LocationTaunton, Massachusetts
Built1876
ArchitectE.C. Chandler
Architectural styleItalianate
MPSTaunton MRA
NRHP reference No.84002223 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 5, 1984

The Taunton Alms House, now the Taunton Nursing Home, is a historic alms house at 350 Norton Avenue in Taunton, Massachusetts. It built in 1876 on the site of a previous alms house, during a period of reform that sought to improve housing, health care and educational conditions for the poor. The property also contained a communal farm. The house had space for sixty indigents, often children, who would stay there until placed with a local family.[2]

The brick building was designed by local architect E.C. Chandler, and has two stories topped by a gable roof and resting on a raised basement. The main facade is nine-bays wide, with a gable-topped projecting section at the center. The building's Italianate styling includes stone corner quoining.[2] The building was added to National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]

The property, still owned and operated by the city, now serves as the Taunton Nursing Home, and includes a large (non-historic) addition on two sides.

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References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ a b "NRHP nomination and MACRIS inventory record for Taunton Alms House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-06-16.

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