Sentences with word «almshouse»

We have a lot of these courtyards eith almshouses in the bigger, older cities.

We hurried to the little courtyard with almshouses which he had selected as background.

Vale believes that the large public housing project «seems headed the way of the old unclassified almshouse — increasingly marginalized and ultimately abandoned.»

Attendants at the jails and almshouses often charged visitors from 10 to 25 cents for visits to the «crazy house.»

(See more about almshouses in Haarlem.)

The photos were taken at the same courtyard with almshouses where we photographed the cream A-line skirt with the «eye shirt».

A hofje is a Dutch word for a courtyard with almshouses around it; hoven is the plural.

In total, around 500 heat storage hypocausts have now been documented in the Baltic Region and, according to the latest estimates, there must have been at least 800 - 1,000 of them by the end of the 15th century [1], their use spreading from monasteries and castles to other public buildings, such as almshouses, town halls, guildhalls and hospitals.

To define the intersection between old and new, Stephen planted Quercus robur (common oak) between the garden and the Georgian almshouses.

Finding a visual language that would enable the garden to sit comfortably with the combination of new steel glass towers and the Georgian London - brick almshouses that line one side was one of the many challenges Stephen faced.

Whether the poor were transferred to almshouses and asylums or targeted in the tenements in which they lived, their housing stood in stark contrast to the American ideal: the detached, single - family home, preferably situated on a sizable plot of land.

Remember that many mentally ill persons were still chained to the walls of jails and almshouses a little more than a century ago in America (see Chap.

The almshouses are so adorable.

Below: these are the almshouses, overlooking a communal garden.

They reported a complaint to the Department of Public Charities and Correction, which administered the city's almshouse, insane asylums, and orphanages, among other institutions.

Purchased by the city in 1828 with the best of intentions, the island soon harbored an almshouse, an insane asylum, a hospital, a prison and a workhouse along its narrow two - mile strip.

In 1828, it was Blackwell's, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse and a number of hospitals.

He left a financial legacy which he hoped would be used to support less fortunate artists, planning and designing an almshouse for them in Twickenham.

It is not the fact of charging fees to its beneficiaries that causes the problem — almshouses, cathedrals and the National Trust all charge entry fees these days.

These children were placed in almshouses, in orphanages and with other families.