Boston City Hospital (first) is dedicated.

Architect: Gridley Bryant. Designed in the French Second Empire style, it consists of a domed administration building at 818 Harrison Avenue, subsequently flanked by medical and surgical pavilions. The second municipal hospital in the U.S., it is incorporated on March 27, 1858. Its purpose is, “[To serve] the honest, temperate and industrious poor [and] to bring them under the influence of order, purity and kindness.” But except in cases of accident or emergency, it refuses admission to those “who cannot give a satisfactory reference as to character when requested to do so.” The hospital is subsequently the site of the first successful demonstration of the therapeutic use of radium, Nobel Prize-winning work in the treatment of pernicious anemia, and pioneering treatment in hematology and sickle cell disease. The administration building is torn down in 1933 [1934-Barnet] and replaced in the mid-1950s. A new hospital (second) opens in 1994.*