Boston Lying-In Hospital (second) opens.

Architect: Gridley J.F. Bryant. It is located at 133 East Springfield Street. The hospital closes due to lack of patients in November 1856, reopens (third) in the West End in 1873,* and moves to Longwood Avenue (fourth) in 1923.* The Springfield Street building is used by the New England Medical College from 1859 to 1862, as the Discharged Soldiers Home during the Civil War. The building is subsequently converted to the Home for Aged Men, and it is where Bryant dies in poverty in 1899.