The North Grove Street Building

The North Grove Street Building

Harvard Medical School

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In 1847, Harvard Medical School erected a new building, on North Grove Street, adjoining Massachusetts General Hospital, on land donated by Dr. George Parkman—whose body would all too soon be found buried beneath it. The school building itself had nearly doubled in size (134 feet long and 60 feet wide), and the 1849 catalogue described it as "…of ample dimensions, and well warmed and ventilated throughout. It contains, on the second floor, two large Lecture rooms, the Chemical Laboratory, and the Library. On the floor above are the Theatre, in which the Lectures on Anatomy, Surgery and Pathological Anatomy, are delivered, the Professors' and Demonstrators' rooms…. The ground floor is occupied by the Janitor's apartments, rooms attached to the laboratory, etc. The Dissecting Room is a separate hall attached to the main building."

The North Grove Street building also provided accommodation for the institution's newest educational asset—the Warren Anatomical Museum.

A picture of the North Grove Street Building, reproduced from a plate between pg. 58 and 59 of Harvard & its surroundings by Moses King, 1878.

King, Moses, 1853-1909

King

1878, circa

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Harvard Medical Library Rare Books Collection (AC 1878.55)

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