The building is the oldest known state-supported poorhouse or almshouse in Canada. The infirmary, poorhouse, and asylum eventually became overcrowded. Headley Grange is a former poorhouse in Headley, Hampshire, England, UK. Shortly after, the parish established the Bruton Parish Poorhouse. The committee also inspected the homes where children of the poorhouse were apprenticed out. He also left $50,000 for a poorhouse and orphanage in his German hometown of Walldorf. Anderson died in a poorhouse in Thornton, Fife, Scotland. Fairview House is a former poorhouse dating from 1856, which is now a residential complex. Park died of pernicious anemia in the Inveresk poorhouse. By 1834 the poorhouse was in bad condition and in Nankin Township were purchased. It was used as a hospital poorhouse from 1793. Eighteenth-century maps show a West Church Poorhouse immediately west of the church. Next to the poorhouse is the Postern Gate, which leads to the Prison Tower. A union of parishes operating a single poorhouse was known as a Combination. The Barnhill Poorhouse, had also opened at Springburn in 1850.