{"nrhp_refnum":"78001849","name":"Poughkeepsie Almshouse and City Infirmary","other_names":["Poughkeepsie City Home"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"20 Maple St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Poughkeepsie","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.70075376900007,"lon":-73.91205848299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-12-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of two main institutional buildings and five outbuildings on about seven acres at 20 Maple Street, Poughkeepsie, New York: an Italianate brick almshouse opened in 1869 and a Colonial Revival city infirmary built in 1907 and enlarged in 1936.","why_significant":"The almshouse is described as an outstanding example of nineteenth-century institutional architecture, designed by J.A. Wood, and it reflects the city's growing concern for social ills. The infirmary, donated by William W. Smith and designed by Percival Lloyd, is one of Poughkeepsie's scarce examples of Colonial Revival civic architecture. Together they document the history of poor relief in the city from 1821 to 1972.","narrative":"On almost seven acres at 20 Maple Street in Poughkeepsie stand two institutional buildings that served the city's poor and sick for about a century. The almshouse, opened in 1869 after an earlier poorhouse burned in 1868, is a brick Italianate building with a three-story central block and two-story wings. It was designed by J.A. Wood, an architect active in the Hudson Valley and later in the South. Its interior is plain, with pressed sheet iron ceilings and many original doors. The City Infirmary, built in 1907 as a gift from local benefactor William W. Smith, was designed by Percival Lloyd in the Colonial Revival style and features a two-story semicircular portico. A rear addition followed in 1936 as a WPA project. Both buildings were used for their original purposes until 1972, later housed offices, and were vacated by 1977. Five outbuildings, including a carriage house, laundry and barn, remain on the site.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1868)","architect_builder":"J.A. Wood (almshouse); Percival Lloyd (1907 infirmary); John P. Draney, architect, and L.H. Swenson Co. Ltd., general contractors (1936 addition)","architectural_style":"Italianate (almshouse); Colonial Revival (infirmary)","criteria":[],"status_note":"The almshouse was vacated in 1972 and its first and second floors were adapted for offices in 1969. The infirmary closed in 1972, was refurbished for offices, and Social Services vacated it in October 1977. Condition is marked fair/deteriorated and the property is marked unoccupied.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.535097-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/78001849.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001849/b8324c8ef8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001849/b8324c8ef8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Atom88888888","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PoughkeepsieAlmshouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Atom88888888</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PoughkeepsieAlmshouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317434","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poughkeepsie_Almshouse_and_City_Infirmary","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14707202"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/poughkeepsie-almshouse-and-city-infirmary-78001849/"}