Hospitals
Brookline Historical Society
Hospitals

Corey Hill Hospital, 1900s
Corey Hill Hospital, 1918
Top of Summit Ave. near Brighton border
Corey Hospital
Brooks Hospital, 227 Summit Ave.
Buildings still standing.
Contagious Hospital, 1909
The Town of Brookline maintained its own hospitals until the 1950s. This was the first to be built, in 1894, at the corner of Newton and Grove Streets
Baptist Hospital, 1910
The Fisk Hospital, 106 Sewall St.
"For the treatment of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction (By the Towns-Lambert Method) Private Rooms – Competent Physicians – Trained Nurses
Free Hospital for Women
Looking from Leverett Pond; built 1894-1895
Free Hospital for Women, circa 1910
Nurses House, Free Hospital For Women, 1912
Board of Health Hospital, Newton St.


(ID) 116
(Slide ID) P-24-5
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]
Contagious Hospital, Newton St.
This is probably one of the two wooden buildings built circa 1895 on the hill above the Putterham School to isolate and treat the rising number of cases of diphtheria and scarlet fever. They were replaced by a more substantial complex in 1902.

(ID) 100
(Slide ID) P-24-4
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]
Contagious Hospital, Newton St.
These two hospital buildings and the administration building in the middle were constructed in 1902 on the hill above the Putterham School to isolate and treat the rising number of cases of diphtheria and scarlet fever.

[ref. The Chronicle, October 25th, 1902]

(ID) 127
(Slide ID) P-24-11
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]