West Nurses Entrance

Entrance to the West Nurses Home, viewed from a lawn that was later used as a playground. West Nurses was built in 1905 for the women working in the western campus, mainly used for female residents during Fernald's early years.

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.