Children's Home is a historic building at 427 Robeson Street in
Fall River, Massachusetts
Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The City of Fall River's population was 94,000 at the 2020 United States Census, making it the tenth-largest city in the state.
Located along the eastern shore of Mount H ...
. It was built in 1895 to replace an earlier wooden building. The Children's Home was founded in 1873 as a merger of the Fall River Orphan's Asylum and Children's Friend Society. It is an architecturally eclectic brick building, with asymmetrical massing and a complicated roof line typical of the Queen Anne Revival, but also with Colonial Revival features including its columned porch and bracketed cornice. The building was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1983. The listing included a small stick-style picnic shelter also located on the property.
It is now owned by Citizens for Citizens, Inc.
City Property Info
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See also
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References
Buildings and structures in Fall River, Massachusetts
Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Fall River, Massachusetts
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