Dr. Marie Zakrzewska (1829-1902) established the New England Hospital for Women and Children at 60 Pleasant Street in 1862, and soon thereafter moved it to larger quarters at 14 Warren Street (now called Warrenton). This building is no longer standing. In 1872, the hospital found its permanent home on a beautiful hillside in Roxbury. The New England Hospital for Women and Children was the first hospital in New England, and the second in the nation, run by women doctors and for women patients; it was also the first hospital in Boston to include full departments of obstetrics, gynecology, and pediatrics under one roof. One of the hospital’s earliest Resident Physicians was Dr. Lucy Sewall (1837-90). Among the student interns in the 1860s were renowned future doctors, Susan Dimock and Sophie Jex-Blake. In 1969 the hospital closed and was reincarnated as the Dimock Community Health Center, today called the Dimock Center.
