Greene County Almshouse

Built in 1907. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Greene County Almshouse was a historic poorhouse located in Greene County, Illinois, along a township road northeast of the city of Carrollton. The almshouse was built in 1870 in accordance with an 1839 state law which provided for each county to establish its own almshouse or poor farm for welfare recipients.”
Wikipedia article Greene County Almshouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1991 · category: District · built in 1907.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Twp. Rd. TR156A NE of Carrolton, Carrolton, 62016
When was it listed? May 1991
Category. district
Township. Linder township
When was it built? 1907
National Register reference number. 91000568 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Greene County Almshouse: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Carrollton City Pit	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Greene County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Henry T. Rainey Farm	1.9 miles	1987
Carrollton Courthouse Square Historic District	3.1 miles	1985
Hodges House	3.8 miles	1980
Black Homestead Farm	4.8 miles	2005
White Hall Foundry	7.6 miles	1980
White Hall Historic District (Boundary Increase)	7.6 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000568 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene County	All 12 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.