The core campus area was located between Lyman Street and Chauncy Lake,[2] north of Massachusetts Route 9.

[3] The pioneering African-American psychiatrist Solomon Carter Fuller spent the majority of his career practicing at the hospital in the early 1900s.

While there, he performed his ground-breaking research on the physical changes to the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients.

[5] On May 9, 2015, a memorial service was held in nearby Pine Grove Cemetery for the more than 500 patients who died at Westborough State Hospital and whose remains were unclaimed and subsequently buried in a potter's field.

The service was part of a larger effort to put names to the graves of the deceased.