North Building and Boys' Home
Relevant Dates: 1933
View of the North Building (left) and the Boys' Home (right) from Fernald's central drive. The Boys' Home was used as a dormitory for young male patients and the North Building housed the elderly men. The former was demolished and replaced by the modern Withington Building in the 1960s, as seen in the contemporary photograph.
Historic photograph taken in 1933 from General Photographic Collection: Massachusetts: Standard-size photographs, 1860s-2000s: Massachusetts: Waltham: "Mass School for Feeble-Minded (Fernald)": Thompson and Thompson Images; Courtesy of Historic New England. Contemporary photo by Tom Kirsch, 2019.