[4] In early 1860, Anne Smith Robbins, enabled by an inheritance from her aunt, started the plan for the House of the Good Samaritan.

[2] Under the leadership of the Boston physician Buckminister Brown (1819–1891), the House of the Good Samaritan opened in 1864 the USA's first orthopedic ward for children.

[4] From 1929 to 1947 the physician T. Duckett Jones was the director of the hospital's research department for investigation of rheumatic fever and related diseases.

[7] The House of the Good Samaritan was one of the USA's first institutions to specialize in the treatment and study of rheumatic fever and its sequelae.

T. Duckett Jones and his associates organized studies of rheumatic fever dating back to 1921 at the House of the Good Samaritan.

In 1973 Boston Children's Hospital completely closed the House of the Good Samaritan because there were so few cases of rheumatic fever.