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Anna Bissonnette House
Located at the intersection of Washington and East Concord Streets in Boston’s South End, Anna Bissonnette House (ABH) opened in 1997 to provide permanent supportive housing to forty formerly homeless elders.
Site of the former Aerated Bread Company and later a warehouse for Boston University Medical Center, the site was beautifully renovated and decorated to provide 22 studio and 18 one-bedroom apartments. Common area kitchens and community spaces are available on each floor, in addition to the large Shapiro Community Room in the lobby. Tenants can enjoy the view from the roof-top deck and, with the help of volunteers, grow flowers and vegetables.
Residents represent a wide diversity of backgrounds and physical, emotional, intellectual and social functioning levels. Through its staff and professional volunteers, ABH supports the multifaceted health and mental health service needs, and community activities of all its residents.
"Saving sound old buildings that have outlived their original uses and adapting them to current social needs gives life and meaning to a city's landmarks. The thoughtful remodeling of this handsome brick bread factory into housing for the elderly homeless is a model of preservation and continuity." -- Ada Louise Huxtable, Pulitzer Prize Winning Architecture Critic of The Wall Street Journal
Learn more about each of our homes:
Bishop Street House – Jamaica Plain
Anna Bissonnette House – Boston’s South End
Ruth Cowin House – Brookline
Ruggles Affordable Assisted Living Community – Roxbury
ElderHouse – Uphams Corner, Dorchester
Milton Fuller Housing Corporation/Fuller Village
Burroughs Street House – Jamaica Plain