Originally called the Channing Street Home for Sick and Destitute Women, the Channing Home was founded by Harriet Ryan Albee in 1857 as place to feed and care for indigent and sick women, most of whom were victims of tuberculosis. The home closed in 1958 and the building and land were sold to Deaconess Hospital. The endowment that supported the home was eventually used to create the William Ellery Channing Professorship at Harvard Medical School and funded the Channing Laboratory, now a multidisciplinary research division of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School investigating bacteriology, chronic disease epidemiology and virology.
From the description of Records, 1879-1950s. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 231042905
