Place: The Boston Home
Address: 2049 Dorchester Avenue
Neighborhood: Dorchester
On November 15, 2011, I explored the Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line. I walked from Ashmont to Cedar Grove, via Dorchester Avenue and Gallivan Boulevard. Along the way, I found the Boston Home. I revisited the area again a year later, on November 15 and 16, 2012.
To visit the Boston Home, the easiest way would be to ride the Red Line to Ashmont and walk down Dorchester Avenue. Bus routes 21, 27, 215, 217 and 240 can also get you there.
"Originally called the Boston Home for Incurables, the Boston Home was founded in 1881 by Cordelian Harmon, a nurse from Massachusetts General Hospital, in collaboration with Reverend Phillips Books, an advocate for social service. The Home provided care for permanently disabled and chronically ill for whom there was no other provision in hospitals or at home. It was "open to all classes of the worth poor without distinction of race or religion." By the beginning of the 21st century, The Boston Home developed into a national model for care of adults with advanced progressive neurological diseases, primarily multiple sclerosis."
To learn more about the Boston Home:
http://www.thebostonhome.org/about-us/history/
http://www.dorchesteratheneum.org/page.php?id=91
