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. Fall River's population was 94,000 at the 2020 United States census, making it the List of municipalities in Massachusetts, tenth-largest city in the state, and the second- ...
. 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 Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
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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