Middletown Is Historic

Middletown Alms House (1814) From Historic Buildings of Connecticut:

The building at 53 Warwick Street
(Federal Style) in Middletown was built in 1814 to house the town’s poor.

The Alms House
was used as a poorhouse until the Town Farm opened on Silver Street in 1853. A number of businesses and organizations have since used the building, starting with the
Hubbard and Curtis Hardware Company:
and later including the Middletown Fire Arms and Specialty Company, the Middletown Rifle Club and the C.B. Stone Oil Company. The building once had a classical cupola on the roof and a central pavilion with a projecting gable roof (both were later removed, but the pavilion has been restored). It is now owned by by Lee Godburn, who has a hair salon: (http://tiffanysalonct.com/) in the building.