Free Hospital for Women.

In 1875, Dr. William Henry Baker founded the Free Hospital for Women in Boston, Massachusetts to provide free medical care to poor women. The facility, dedicated to teaching, researching, and caring for the diseases of women, was also utilized as a medical teaching adjunct of Harvard University. Requests for treatment increased progressively and by 1882, the FHW had established of one of the nation's first cancer wards. In 1895, the FHW relocated to a new facility built in Brookline Massachusetts. Later that year, a training school for gynecological nurses was established.

A new wing for paying patients was completed in 1922. In 1928, the President of the Corporation, George R. Fearing, donated the funds to erect a modern research laboratory devoted to the study diseases of the female reproduction organs. In 1944, Dr. John Charles Rock founded the Rock Reproductive Study Center at the Free Hospital for Women to study infertility.

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