1930-1992
In 1930 the state authorized a hospital to open in the Boston Metropolitan area. Located on 490 acres on
Waltham's Trapelo Road neighboring Middlesex County Hospital, Gaebler Children's Center, and the
Walter E. Fernald State School. Metro was built under the cottage style asylum look.
This hospital was also known for it's severe over crowding; patients were often kept in the corridors.
As the corridors became full of patients were too dangerous to transport patients so the tunnels
became the primary mode of transport.
In 1992 the state closed down the hospital due to budget cuts and alternative methods of treating the
mentally ill.
CTG
Medical Building
Mortuary
Male & Female Dormitories
Furcolo Building
Power Plant
Superintendent's House
Met Fern Cemetary
The Grounds
NEWS ARTICLES
Ann Marie Davee
August - October 1980
Headstones of Patients Toppled
by State Workers
March 2006
Undergrad Efforts Brighten Bleak
Existence of Patients
May 1955
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