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Poughkeepsie Almshouse and City Infirmary

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NRHP Reference #
  
78001849

Year built
  
1868

Architect
  
J. A. Wood

Area
  
3 ha

Added to NRHP
  
4 December 1978

Poughkeepsie Almshouse and City Infirmary

Location
  
20 Maple St., Poughkeepsie, New York

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival, Italianate

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. It has been adaptively reused as a satellite campus for Adelphi University.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

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Poughkeepsie Almshouse and City Infirmary Wikipedia