Saint Francis House (Boston, Massachusetts)

USA / Massachusetts / Boston / Boston, Massachusetts / Boylston Street, 39
 homeless shelter, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, 1906_construction, Beaux-Arts (architecture)
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Saint Francis House is a nonprofit, nonsectarian, daytime shelter, primarily for the homeless, located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, and founded in the early 1980s. It is the largest daytime shelter in New England and serves as an early model of such a center.

It is housed in the historic Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company building at 25–39 Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

The seven-story Beaux Arts building was constructed in 1906 to a design by Winslow & Bigelow and enlarged in 1922 to a design by Bigelow & Wadsworth. It served as the headquarters of the Boston Edison Illuminating Company until the 1950s.
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Coordinates:   42°21'9"N   71°3'48"W
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