Free Hospital for Women Building
- Address: 60 Glen Rd
- Vicinity: Pond Ave
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 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. |
| Particulars for Free Hospital for Women Building: | |
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| 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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