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Back in the day, storks delivered Boston babies

By adamg on Sat, 04/30/2016 - 10:45pm
Stork on old Boston Lying-In Hospital

What? It's just a myth? Explain the storks that still adorn the exterior of the old Boston Lying-In Hospital on Longwood Avenue (part of Brigham and Women's Hospital since 1980).

The storks were there in 1927, when Thomas Marr photographed the hospital.

Neighborhoods: 
Roxbury
Topics: 
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Brigham and Women's Hospital
Longwood Medical Area


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Comments

By perruptor on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 6:47am.

I know, because I was born there, and If there were any big birds involved, I'd still be having nightmares about it.

By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 12:17pm.

You order an infant, then go there and punch in a code to get your stork delivery.

By Elmer on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 1:11pm.

By anon on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 4:08pm.

Seriously, this must refer to something else -- perhaps one of the patrician Yankee benefactors was a bird enthusiast? It can't be whimsy, it just can't!

By Mjolnir on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 5:10pm.

The Victorians were all about whimsy in architecture, and I love them for it. Look at Boston Ivy railings, or the Cochituate Standpipe at Fort Hill!

By anon on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 6:16pm.

No, until the 1950s, all children were born by stork delivery!

By perruptor on Mon, 05/02/2016 - 7:37am.

My mom says you're wrong. No stork when I was born.