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The Boston Psychopathic Hospital, established at 74 Fenwood Road in 1912, was one of the first mental health hospitals in Massachusetts, United States. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. The name was changed to Massachusetts Mental Health Center in the late 1960s.
The Massachusetts Mental Health Center is a historic psychiatric hospital complex at 75 Fenwood Road in the Longwood medical area of Boston, Massachusetts. The center was founded in 1912 as the Boston Psychopathic Hospital. Its original main building and power plant were built that year, with additions in later decades including a therapeutic ...
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health; Massachusetts State Hospitals, hdl:2452/625416 – via State Library of Massachusetts electronic repository. (Various documents). Local History & Genealogy - Waltham Room, with information on the closing of the hospital; Waltham Land Trust: The Western Greenway; The area in the OpenStreetMap shows trails.
It was renamed Boston Insane Hospital in 1897 after transferring operations under city council to Board of Supervisor of Public Institution and became a Massachusetts state agency in 1908. [3] The first site was demolished to become Boston Edison Company's South Edison Power Station in 1998 and now being re-developed as 776 Summer Street. [4]
It was the second state asylum in Massachusetts. Most of the original part of the facility was built in a unique and rare neo-classical style designed by architects Boyden & Ball . It is also a Kirkbride Plan hospital and is located on a large 154-acre (62 ha) farm along the Mill River .
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health currently operates a Joint Commission accredited, 370-bed facility at Tewksbury Hospital, providing both medical and psychiatric services to challenging adult patients with chronic conditions. [4] The Public Health Museum in Massachusetts now occupies the Richard Morris Building. [5]
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The clock tower was demolished in 2012, to make way for a parking lot. A replica of the clocktower was later rebuilt (in the same spot) as a tribute to the old Worcester State Hospital. The new clock tower is visible from Route 9 West in downtown Shrewsbury, MA near the Shrewsbury/Worcester town line or from Clocktower Drive in Worcester MA.