Choate Hospital
Before it was a hospital, the mansion, on Academy Hill, was the home of Charles Choate, a "well-known 19th century Woburn philanthropist and statesman," according to the company, , that that now calls the property home. Choate lived at Academy Hill from 1847 until 1906... In 1909, the city's first community hospital opened there... The hospital closed in 1989, after bankruptcy... patch.com