The George R. Minot House is a
National Historic Landmark in
Brookline, Massachusetts
Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, in the United States, and part of the Greater Boston, Boston metropolitan area. Brookline borders six of Boston's neighborhoods: Brighton, Boston, Brighton, A ...
. It is an architecturally undistinguished vernacular
Colonial Revival brick house, probably built in the 1920s. The -story main block has an attached -story ell, and two end chimneys. The hip roof is pierced by gabled dormers, and a pedimented portico shelters the front entry.
History
The house is significant as the home of Dr.
George R. Minot
George Richards Minot (December 2, 1885 – February 25, 1950) was an American medical researcher who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize with George Hoyt Whipple and William P. Murphy for their pioneering work on pernicious anemia.
Early life
George Ri ...
(1885–1950), who was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 for discovering a cure for
pernicious anemia. Minot had a long history of interest in anemia, and performed his groundbreaking research while chief of medical services at Boston's Collis Huntington Memorial Hospital in the 1920s. He continued research on blood-related diseases at the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory of
Boston City Hospital until his retirement in 1948. He died in 1950 from complications associated with
diabetes mellitus, which afflicted him in 1921 and might have killed him soon thereafter, had
insulin
Insulin (, from Latin ''insula'', 'island') is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets encoded in humans by the ''INS'' gene. It is considered to be the main anabolic hormone of the body. It regulates the metabolism o ...
not been discovered the following year. Minot was also a full professor at
Harvard Medical School, and was the first American to receive the Moxon Medal from the
Royal College of Physicians. Some of his students went on to continue research in blood-related diseases based on his research methods, and the
American Medical Association established a lecture series in his honor.
It was designated a
National Historic Landmark and listed on the
National Register of Historic Places on January 7, 1976.
See also
*
List of National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts
*
National Register of Historic Places listings in Brookline, Massachusetts
References
{{National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1929
National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts
Houses in Brookline, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Brookline, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Colonial Revival architecture in Massachusetts