126 Royalston Rd., Templeton, Massachusetts. County/parish: Worcester.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 21, 1994. NRIS 93001485.
Part of Massachusetts State Hospitals And State Schools MPS (NRIS 64500252).
45 contributing buildings. 3 contributing sites. 11 contributing structures.Also known as:
The Templeton Developmental Center was a state-run facility for mentally disabled people located in Templeton, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Founded as the Templeton Farm Colony in 1899 through the efforts of Walter E. Fernald, superintendent of what is now called the Fernald School in Waltham, Massachusetts, it was considered an innovative and progressive facility for managing the state's developmentally disabled population at the time. The large facility was closed in 2015, with some intermediate care facilities remaining open on the campus. The property and some of the buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793437