The Dimock Community Health Center Complex is a historic medical complex at 41 and 55 Dimock Street in

Boston, Massachusetts Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...

. The center's Zakrzewska Building was built in the

Stick style The Stick style was a late-19th-century American architectural style, transitional between the Carpenter Gothic style of the mid-19th century, and the Queen Anne style that it had evolved into by the 1890s. It is named after its use of linear " ...

of architecture in 1872, designed by

Charles Amos Cummings Charles Amos Cummings (June 26, 1833 – August 11, 1905) was a nineteenth-century American architect and architectural historian who worked primarily in the Venetian Gothic style. Cummings followed the precepts of British cultural theoris ...

and

Willard T. Sears Willard Thomas Sears (November 5, 1837 – May 21, 1920) was a prominent New England architect of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who worked primarily in the Gothic Revival and Renaissance Revival styles. In 1861, Sears opened ...

as the

New England Hospital for Women and Children The New England Hospital for Women and Children was founded by Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska, Marie Zakrzewska on July 1, 1862. The hospital's goal was to provide patients with competent female physicians, educate women in the study of medicine, an ...

. This facility was the first in New England and the second in the United States to be run by female doctors. Contemporary renovations were completed by James A. Fox and it was added to the

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in 1985. In 1991 the complex was declared a

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(as "New England Hospital for Women and Children"; the National Register listing is for "Dimock Community Health Center Complex").

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Dimock Center web site
Hospital buildings completed in 1872 Cummings and Sears buildings Hospital buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Hospitals in Boston National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts Buildings and structures in Boston Roxbury, Boston National Register of Historic Places in Boston {{Massachusetts-hospital-stub, Boston=y

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