Family members rushed to help as the water threatened to spread from the low-level shower floor into the rest of the almshouse in Bovingdon Road. |
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Thus, while the almshouse served the poor, it also served as a powerful vehicle of town life and political ambition. |
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The creation of an almshouse or a poorhouse was not necessarily due to any particular function of the town, but may have been influenced by a particularly powerful selectmen. |
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The struggling public library was quartered in an 18th-century stone building that had been, in the course of its 185 years, an almshouse, an orphanage, and an insane asylum. |
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Although the almshouse did not eliminate poverty any more than the penitentiary did crime, 1820s Baltimore attested to the optimism of a dynamic age. |
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One Sunday, on her daily visit to the almshouse, Evangeline sees an old man on his deathbed. |
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Then it became an almshouse, before being deserted. |
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In 2008, Borghezio joined a sit-in at Genoa's San Giovanni di Pré church to protest mayor Marta Vicenzi's plans to convert an almshouse in the compound into an interfaith chapel. |
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He planned and designed an almshouse for them at Twickenham with a gallery for some of his works. |
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One surviving example is the gateway at Ripon, designed somewhat in the style of a medieval almshouse. |
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In 1619 he founded Abbot's Hospital, an almshouse in Guildford, which is still operating. |
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The green of this small village is set among an old Vanbrugh almshouse, a pub and three stone bridges over its beck. |
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The almshouse menu from the late 19th century speaks of the harsh reality and austerity of the times when quantity, not quality of the food was of the essence. |
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In medieval times, the murder of a bishop or a rival for the throne might be compensated by the foundation of an almshouse or chantry the medieval equivalent of public services. |
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Despite divided authority the city grew rapidly, and by the 1730s it possessed two newspapers, an almshouse, a night watch, and a network of volunteer firemen. |
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The poor, suffering from fever, go to the almshouse to die. |
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The scene is an almshouse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
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Many characteristics typical of Haarlem are included: Two almshouse courts will be located around the school, and the street profile for the new interior walkway corresponds with the model of the Haarlem shopping street. |
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It is thought to have originally been built as a brewery for the production of church ales, became adapted as an almshouse, and later became the village school. |
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With almost 1,200 patients, laguna Honda Hospital was originally the San Francisco Almshouse, and in a way it still is. |
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Another site in Shandon is Skiddy's Almshouse which was built in the 18th century to provide a home to the poorest of the city. |
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