Built 1884 Opened 1884 | NRHP Reference # 83000776 Added to NRHP 24 February 1983 | |
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MPS Downtown Springfield MRA Architectural styles Queen Anne style architecture, Stick style Similar Forest Park, Symphony Hall - Springfield, Quadrangle, MassMutual Center, Naismith Memorial Basketbal | ||
The W C A Boarding House is a historic boarding house at 19 Bliss Street in Springfield, Massachusetts. It is one Springfield's few surviving boarding house structures from the 19th century. It was built in 1884 by the Women's Christian Association (WCA), a social welfare organization that was a predecessor to the Young Women's Christian Association. The three story brick structure was used by the WCA as a space for boarding respectable working class single women. With the construction of a new facility in 1910, the property was operated as a private boarding house. Since 1962 the building has house the Springfield Rescue Mission, a social welfare agency.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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