At Aria at Hathorne Hill you’ll have plenty of time to enjoy all the exciting recreational and cultural opportunities right outside your door. With quick access to major highways, it’s an easy ride to downtown Boston, or even shopping at the North Shore and Liberty Tree Mall for those who want to live in scenic, secluded surroundings but still be close to it all.
Renowned Boston architect, Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee, started work on theproject in 1874. Inspired by the site’s commanding hilltop views,Bradlee designed a masterpiece of quintessential high VictorianGothic style, which included the sprawling hospital campus and a Children’s Hospital that was never built.
The hospital, led by Dr.Thomas Story Kirkbride, was designed
to be a humane and compassionate environment for the patients.
Kirkbride believed that beautiful settings restored patients to a
more natural "balance of the senses". His progressive therapies
and innovative writings on hospital design along with management
became known as the Kirkbride Plan, which influenced, in one form
or another, almost every American state hospital by the turn of the
century, including Danvers.
