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Mattapan Community Health Center

WEBThe Mattapan Community Health Center is the only community health center in Mattapan and Hyde Park. Established in 1972 as the Avenue Neighborhood Health Center; it was …

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Upham’s Corner Health Center, 415 Columbia Road

WEB1973-1979. Upham’s Corner Health Center (UCHC) opened for patient services in January 1973. The first site was located at the Municipal Building at 500 Columbia Road. UCHC …

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Codman Square Health Center

WEBMoving forward to the present day, the Codman Square Health Center has grown. We now have over 20,000 active patients making over 100,000 annual visits to all services. We …

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Geiger Gibson Health Center

WEBNo. 11606 Geiger Gibson Health Center, photograph 2011 Columbia Point Health Center 1964 Having met during the Freedom Summer of 1964, Drs. Jack Geiger and Count …

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Boston Consumptives Hospital, River Street

WEBThe Boston Consumptives Hospital (a.k.a. Boston Sanatorium) is located at 249 River Street in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood. The site historically contained 52 …

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Hospitals and Health Centers

WEBIn the first years of settlement, families provided health care to the best of their own ability. By the eighteenth-century, professionally-trained doctors appeared, …

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Benedict Fenwick School, 150 Magnolia Street

WEBThe Benedict Fenwick School was designed and constructed in 1911 and 1912 just after the adoption of a new policy on open-air and fresh-air classrooms by the …

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Cullis Consumptives Home

WEBThe Cullis Consumptives Home began as a hospital for incurables in the estate known as Grove Hall. The Cullis Consumptives Home, a hospital for incurables at …

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Home for Incurables

WEBConvalescents’ Home, Dorchester, Mass., postmarked 1910. Located on Dorchester Avenue between Ashmont and the Lower Mills, the Home for Incurables receives those …

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St. Mary’s Infant Asylum, 90 Cushing Avenue

WEBIn 1911, a private pavilion connected with St. Mary’s was opened for maternity patients and was named St. Margaret’s Hospital. Another building was erected in 1922 for the price of …

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Boston State Hospital

WEBThe Boston Lunatic Hospital opened in South Boston in 1839. In 1881, part of the hospital was transferred to the Austin Farm in West Roxbury, although …

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Mary Jane Safford Blake

WEBMary Jane Safford, 1831-1891. Safford was born in Hyde Park, Vt. and lived in Crete, Ill., from age 3. in 1849, following her parents’ death, family members secured her education …

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Geiger Gibson Health Center, Columbia Point

WEBColumbia Point Health Center 1964 Having met during the Freedom Summer of 1964, Drs. Jack Geiger and Count Gibson opened the nation’s first community health center the …

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Codman Square District

WEBDescription. The Codman Square Historic District, located at a major crossroads in the Dorchester section of Boston, lies within a dense urban neighborhood. …

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Dorchester House

WEBNo. 313 Dorchester House, photograph September, 2003. Dorchester House offers a wide variety of health and social service programs including day-care, after-school care, …

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Harley Hospital, Thacher Estate called Hillside

WEBThe old Thacher estate was called Hillside and occupied the land on Jones Hill stretching from about where Cushing Avenue is now at the top of the hill down to Stoughton Street. …

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Consumptives Home, Quincy Street

WEBNo. 565 Postcard. Consumptives Home, Quincy St., Dorchester, Mass. Circa 1910. The Free Home for Consumptives was located on the north side of Quincy Street and …

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