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What are the buildings, especially Hunnewell, Fegan and Enders, named for?
Children's has many buildings on its Longwood campus, including the Hunnewell, Enders, Fegan, Farley, Karp, Bader, Wolbach, Ida Smith and the newly renamed Berthiaume Family Building. Many were named after their benefactors and others for prominent members of the Children's community.
The Hunnewell Building was named after Francis Welles Hunnewell (1838-1917), vice president of Children's from 1897-1899 and president from 1901 until his death in September of 1918. A resident of Cleveland Circle and a successful real estate developer in Allston-Brighton, Hunnewell was a generous contributor to the hospital, giving more than $300,000 in his lifetime. He was remembered in the 1918 Annual Report as a "devoted and generous friend…always ready to give to the members of the board his sound business judgment."
The Fannie Hall Fegan Memorial Outpatient Building was named in honor of its benefactor, an heiress to her grandfather's fortune from the clipper ship trade. Fegan was a Brookline resident who left her fortune to Children's in the 1960s. A portrait of her as a child hangs in the entry to the Fegan, which was dedicated in 1967.
The Enders Building was named for the preeminent virologist John Franklin Enders (1897-1985), who cultured the polio virus, along with Frederick Robbins and Thomas Weller, in the 1940s. The three men received a Nobel Prize in 1954 for their discovery, which led to the development of a vaccine for polio. In 1970, the Enders building was named to honor his work with polio, measles and other major viruses.
You can find more information about the buildings and sites of the Children's Longwood campus in the history tour brochures, available in the lobbies of Karp, Enders and the Berthiaume Family Building. Guided tours are offered on a monthly basis. Contact me at ext. 5-5286 for details.
Thanks for asking!
— Sheila Spalding, hospital archivist
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