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| In the spring of 1983, MIT opened Green Hall as its first residence hall for women graduate students. MIT named Green Hall in honor of Ida Flansburgh Green of Dallas, Texas who has been a major MIT benefactor and advocate of graduate studies for women. Mrs. Green and her husband, Cecil Howard Green, a 1923 graduate of MIT and founder and honorary director of Texas Instruments, Inc. also provided MIT with its 20 floor "Green Building." The Green Building houses the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and the department of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography.
Ida Flansburgh Green posing in front of the plaque dedicated to her name at Green Hall. Photo courtesy of the MIT Museum, 1983. Prior to its opening in 1983, the present building at 350 Memorial Drive functioned as a medical facility. Before 1966, Green Hall was the Sancta Maria Hospital staffed by the Daughters of the Immaculate Conception, a nursing order of Roman Catholic nuns. Accomodating 83 patients, the nuns acquired the building in 1940 when it was called the Charlesgate Hospital. Among other local patients treated at the hospital was Harry Agganis, the "Golden Greek" of the Boston Red Sox who died at the Sancta Maria Hospital on June 27, 1955 .
Green Hall as viewed from the Harvard Bridge. Photo courtesy of the MIT Museum, circa 1910. When the Sancta Maria hospital facilities became too cramped on Memorial Drive, the hospital moved to its present location on Concord Avenue on the borders of Arlington and Belmont. The building was sold to MIT in July 1966 for use as a students' infirmary. It functioned as an infirmary until it moved into new and expanded facilities in 1982. Related Articles: Tech article from the 1983 completion of Green Hall as a dormitory (courtesy of Anne McCants). Boston Globe articles from 1964 announcing MIT's purchase of the Sancta Maria Hospital in Cambridge (courtesy of the MIT Museum).
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contact: GREEN HALL Last updated 07/08/02
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