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Poorhouses of Massachusetts

Heli Meltsner
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      Ever since the English first settled in America, extreme poverty and the inability of individuals to support themselves and their families have been persistent problems. In the early nineteenth century, many communities established almshouses, or ""poorhouses,"" in a valiant but ultimately failed attempt to create a critical social safety net to shelter the destitute, including the sick, elderly, unemployed, mentally ill, unwed mothers, and the orphaned. This volume details the rise and decline of poorhouses in Massachusetts, painting a vivid portrait of life inside these institutions and revealing a history of constant political and social turmoil over issues that still dominate the conversation about welfare recipients today. The first study to address the role of architecture in shaping as well as reflecting the treatment of paupers, this work also provides photographs and histories of dozens of former poorhouses across the state, many of which still stand.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Heli Meltsner EAN: 9780786466443 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: McFarland & Co Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2012-03-27 CITY: GENRE: ART / General, HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, History of the Americas

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      The curator of the Cambridge Historical Society, Heli Meltsner has been a town planner and a longtime preservation consultant, undertaking numerous nominations to the National Register of Historic Places and historic resource inventories for municipalities and state agencies. A frequent lecturer on poorhouses, she is also a commissioner on a neighborhood conservation district in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
      Ever since the English first settled in America, extreme poverty and the inability of individuals to support themselves and their families have been persistent problems. In the early nineteenth century, many communities established almshouses, or ""poorhouses,"" in a valiant but ultimately failed attempt to create a critical social safety net to shelter the destitute, including the sick, elderly, unemployed, mentally ill, unwed mothers, and the orphaned. This volume details the rise and decline of poorhouses in Massachusetts, painting a vivid portrait of life inside these institutions and revealing a history of constant political and social turmoil over issues that still dominate the conversation about welfare recipients today. The first study to address the role of architecture in shaping as well as reflecting the treatment of paupers, this work also provides photographs and histories of dozens of former poorhouses across the state, many of which still stand.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Heli Meltsner EAN: 9780786466443 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: McFarland & Co Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2012-03-27 CITY: GENRE: ART / General, HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, History of the Americas

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      The curator of the Cambridge Historical Society, Heli Meltsner has been a town planner and a longtime preservation consultant, undertaking numerous nominations to the National Register of Historic Places and historic resource inventories for municipalities and state agencies. A frequent lecturer on poorhouses, she is also a commissioner on a neighborhood conservation district in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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