Free Hospital for Women Building


  • Address: 60 Glen Rd
  • Vicinity: Pond Ave
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1832/00/00 Walter Channing (physician) Founder The Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society and the Mass Humane Society each contribute $5,000 toward the establishment of the Boston Lying-In Hospital "for the care and relief of poor and deserving women".
1875/00/00 The Free Hospital for Women is founded by Dr William Henry Baker. Dr Baker served as a surgical resident under Dr James Marion Sims, founder of the New York Hospital for Women.The original hospital was located on E Springfield St in Boston's South End.
1895/00/00 Shaw and Hunnewell Architect Boston Free Hospital for Women moves to a new, larger building. Notable as the first teaching hospital for Harvard and as the first hospital in the country to use radiation treatment for cancer, the landscaping was tended by Charles S Sargent.
1895/00/00 Charles Sprague Sargent Landscape Architect Boston Free Hospital for Women moves to a new, larger building. Notable as the first teaching hospital for Harvard and as the first hospital in the country to use radiation treatment for cancer, the landscaping was tended by Charles S Sargent.
1966/00/00 Free Hospital for Women merges with the Boston Lying-in Hospital, creating the Boston Hospital for Women.
1980/00/00 Boston Hospital for Women merges with Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Robert Breck Brigham Hospital to form Brigham and Women's Hospital.
1989/00/00 The former Free Hospital for Women building in Brookline is converted into luxury condos.

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Particulars for Free Hospital for Women Building:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Historic Use Hospital
Area of Significance Medical Research Science
Area of Significance Social History




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