St. Luke's Home for Destitute and Aged Women was incorporated by an act of the Connecticut State Assembly on June 22, 1865. For twenty-seven years the home was conducted in an old house on the southwest corner of Court and Pearl Street. in 1892 a large legacy enabled a new home to be erected at the present site at Pearl and Lincoln Streets. Comfortable quarters are provided for fourteen women. Members of the Church of the Holy Trinity played a large part in establishing the endowment; frequently the current rector of that church serves as president of the Board of Trustees.
Saint Luke's Home for Destitute and Aged Women | |
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| Location | 135 Pearl St., Middletown, Connecticut |
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| Coordinates | 41°33′42″N 72°39′17.5″W / 41.56167°N 72.654861°W |
| Area | 0.3 acres (0.12 ha) |
| Built | 1892 |
| Architectural style | Victorian Institutional, Academic Classicism details with Brick walls, Brownstone Foundation, and a Slate Roof |
| NRHP reference No. | 82004337 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 29, 1982 |
The substantial brick building looks like a carefully designed apartment house, rather than an institution. At three-and-a-half stories tall, the first floor is partly below ground level. A long run of brownstone steps leads to a center entrance door on the second floor level. Two bay window piers flank the front entrance, capped off above the roof line by gable-roofed dormers. Decorative elements such as the wrought iron fence, ivy on the facade, and quoin-like brick projections on all corners add a picturesque quality to the building.[2]
The large brick institutional building dominates the area by its mass and corner siting at Pearl and Lincoln Streets in Middletown's residential North End. It forms a dividing line between large structures to the south towards Washington Street and more modest late Victorian era worker homes to the north.
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edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Saint Luke's Home for Destitute and Aged Women". National Park Service. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
- Middletown, Connecticut Historical and Architectural Resources. Volume IV, Card Number 221. Roger Sherman. March, 1978.
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