Hospitals and Health

The Hospitals and Centers Serving Dorchester

In the first years of settlement, families provided health care to the best of their own ability.  By the eighteenth-century, professionally-trained doctors appeared, followed by the first hospital, the St. Mary’s Infant Asylum.

22 Bushnell Street

22 Bushnell Street

Image: No. 3749 22 Bushnell Street, Ashmont Hall, photograph circa 1890. Photograph given to the Dorchester ...
Butler School

Butler School

No. 2291 The Butler School was in the part of Dorchester that was given up to create part of Hyde Park in ...