200 Trapelo Rd., Waltham, Massachusetts. County/parish: Middlesex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 21, 1994. NRIS 93001487.
44 contributing buildings. 2 contributing sites. 2 contributing structures.Also known as:
The Walter E. Fernald State School, later the Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center, was the Western hemisphere's oldest publicly funded institution serving people with developmental disabilities. Under its third superintendent, Walter Fernald, it became a model for state institutions for the developmentally disabled. It later was the scene of medical experiments in the 20th century. Investigations into this research led to new regulations regarding human research in children.
The school occupies a 186 acres (75 ha) property off Trapelo Road in Waltham, Massachusetts.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791392