Poughkeepsie Almshouse and City Infirmary
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Poughkeepsie Almshouse and City Infirmary
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| Location | 20 Maple St., Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Area | 7 acres (2.8 ha) |
| Built | 1868 |
| Architect | J.A. Wood |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Italianate |
| NRHP Reference # | 78001849 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 4, 1978 |
Poughkeepsie Almshouse and City Infirmary is a historic almshouse and infirmary complex located at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York. The complex includes five contributing buildings. The almshouse buildings has a three-story, seven-bay, main block flanked by matching two-story, five-bay, wings. It was built in 1868 of brick with wood trim and features Italianate style details. J.A. Wood is credited as the building's architeect. The City Infirmary building was built in 1907 and enlarged in 1936. It is a two-story brick and stone building and features a two-story, flat roofed, semi-circular entrance portico. The infirmary closed in 1972. Also on the property are a carriage house, barn, laundry building, combination barn / ice house, and shed.[2] It has been adaptively reused as a satellite campus for Adelphi University.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]
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- Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York
- Italianate architecture in New York
- Government buildings completed in 1868
- Buildings and structures in Poughkeepsie, New York
- National Register of Historic Places in Poughkeepsie, New York
- Dutchess County, New York Registered Historic Place stubs
