Medfield State Hospital was built in 1896 in the small town of Harding, Massachusetts. It was one of the first hospitals to be built in the emerging cottage style, a radical departure from its predecessor, the Kirkbride. The hospital took its first patient weeks before construction was completed, such was the overcrowding at Worcester State. Medfield is unique in that the campus was used to inter Japanese POW's during WWII.
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Monday, August 4, 2008
What Do You See in the Clouds, Son?
Medfield State Hospital was built in 1896 in the small town of Harding, Massachusetts. It was one of the first hospitals to be built in the emerging cottage style, a radical departure from its predecessor, the Kirkbride. The hospital took its first patient weeks before construction was completed, such was the overcrowding at Worcester State. Medfield is unique in that the campus was used to inter Japanese POW's during WWII.
Imposing of Morals
The Medfield State Hospital chapel holds many childhood memories for Dr. Harry Gardiner whose father was superintendent of the hospital from 1946 to 1951. Harry remembers going to the chapel to watch films on the weekends, a tradition that lasted well into the 1960's when security guard Bruce McLeod's mother worked as a nurse in the violent ward.
Looking to Heaven
A second view of the chapel tower at Medfield State Hospital. The sky was a perfect backdrop that day even though the day was still somewhat cold for the time of year.
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