Association Residence Nursing Home
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Association Residence Nursing Home
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| Location | 891 Amsterdam Ave., Manhattan, New York City, US |
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| Coordinates | 40°47′55″N 73°58′1″W / 40.79861°N 73.96694°WCoordinates: 40°47′55″N 73°58′1″W / 40.79861°N 73.96694°W |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built | 1881 |
| Architect | Richard Morris Hunt |
| NRHP Reference # | 75001201 |
| Added to NRHP | February 20, 1975 |
The Association Residence Nursing Home, also called the Association for the Relief of Respectable, Aged and Females, is an historic building in New York City built from 1881-1883 to the design of Richard Morris Hunt in the Victorian Gothic style. It is located on Amsterdam Avenue between 103rd and 104th Streets in Manhattan, and is now a youth hostel run by Hostelling International. The Association was founded in 1814 to help the widows of soldiers of the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. An addition to the building was constructed on the south end of the property in 1907, which contained seven Tiffany windows which are now in the collection of the Morse Museum of American Art. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
On February 14, 1814, the Society for the Relief of Indigent Respectable Females, as it was first known, was established in New York City. The Society raised private donations, and gave clothing, small stoves, and food to elderly impoverished women "to relieve and comfort those aged females, who once enjoyed a good degree of affluence, but now reduced to poverty by the vicissitudes of Providence." It was run by women and its first directress was Ann Dominick in 1814. With the help of John Jacob Astor and Peter G. Stuyvesant, the Association built an asylum in 1837-38 at 226 East 20th Street and in 1845 added an infirmary. In 1881 the Association bought the lot on Amsterdam Avenue for $77,500 and construction began that fall by contractor John J. Tucker. The choice of the location was influenced by the construction of an elevated railway (now a subway line) one block west on Ninth Avenue. The building was completed at a cost of $100,000 in 1883. At its dedication ceremony The New York Times stated that "the degree of comfort, almost amounting to luxury, manifest in every detail of the establishment, elicited from many visitors yesterday the remark that 'they would like to be old women'." The Association operated at the Amsterdam Avenue address until at least 1968.
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