{"nrhp_refnum":"85000317","name":"Dimock Community Health Center Complex","other_names":["New England Hospital for Women and Children"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"41 and 55 Dimock St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.319160271000044,"lon":-71.09753664299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-02-21","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1991-07-17","areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History","Health/Medicine","Education"],"significance_levels":["national","state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of eight major hospital buildings on a nine-acre hilltop site in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, built between 1872 and 1930 as the New England Hospital for Women and Children and now the Dimock Community Health Center.","why_significant":"The complex is significant for its role in the history of women in medicine, as one of the first hospitals in America founded by and for women, serving as both a teaching and a practicing hospital. It is also significant for its architecture, which ranges from Stick Style and High Victorian Gothic to Georgian and Classical Revival. The form states it meets criteria A and C at the state and local levels.","narrative":"Eight major buildings on a nine-acre hill in Roxbury make up the former New England Hospital for Women and Children, today the Dimock Community Health Center. Constructed between 1872 and 1930, the buildings follow curving drives around outcroppings of puddingstone rock. They show a progression from Stick Style and High Victorian Gothic to Georgian and Classical Revival design, by Cummings and Sears, John A. Fox, and Kendall, Taylor and Company. The hospital was incorporated in 1863 and founded by Dr. Marie E. Zakrzewska with Lucy Goddard and Edna Dow Cheney to give women care from physicians of their own sex and to train women in medicine and nursing. It was one of the first hospitals of its kind in America. Mary Eliza Mahoney graduated from its nursing program in 1879 as the first Black American nurse. After 1950 the teaching hospital became a health center, and the Dimock Community Health Center was established in 1971. The site is also considered archaeologically sensitive.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Cummings and Sears; W.T. Sears; John A. Fox; Kendall, Taylor and Company","architectural_style":"Stick Style, High Victorian Gothic, Georgian Revival and Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a community health center and social service programs; condition rated good to fair, with minor reversible alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.40779-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/78/7966/63796678/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/85000317.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000317/ed37c9ce79-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000317/ed37c9ce79-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jameslwoodward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dimock_Community_Health_Center_Complex_Boston_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jameslwoodward</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dimock_Community_Health_Center_Complex_Boston_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796678","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimock_Community_Health_Center_Complex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715450"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/dimock-community-health-center-complex-85000317/"}