Hearth Housing

ElderHouse

Opened in March 2002, the fourteen apartments known as ElderHouse provide fully furnished studio apartments for formerly homeless men and women, some with special needs. ElderHouse is the second collaboration among New Communities Services, Inc., New Atlantic Development Corporation, and Hearth; it is part of a mixed-use development known as Uphams Corner Market, comprised of retail and residential units.

 

The is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its important part in the historic fabric of Uphams Corner, Dorchester; the world’s first supermarket was located here.