Humble Start
We dip back into the archives for a glimpse at the school's first location in Boston
Our medical school opened in fall 1893 on Boston’s Boylston Street in the building shown t left with lettering on its side. A brief account written in 1908 by Charles Thayer, the school’s first professor of anatomy and one of its seven founders, recalled “the paucity of our equipment, the stained platform, the uncomfortable straight-backed chairs and the beggarly array of apparatus” that nonetheless made possible “a School, the growth and success of which is without parallel in the history of medical education.”