gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:public_school
institution for people with intellectual disabilities
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gptkbp:architecturalStyle
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gptkb:Colonial_Revival
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gptkbp:area
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196 acres
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gptkbp:capacity
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over 2,000 residents at peak
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gptkbp:closed
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2014
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gptkbp:country
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gptkb:United_States
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gptkbp:founded
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1848
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gptkbp:governingBody
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gptkb:State_of_Massachusetts
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Fernald State School
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gptkbp:listedOn
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gptkb:National_Register_of_Historic_Places
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gptkbp:location
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gptkb:Waltham,_Massachusetts
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gptkbp:mediaCoverage
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subject of documentaries
subject of books on institutionalization
subject of investigative journalism
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gptkbp:namedAfter
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gptkb:Walter_E._Fernald
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gptkbp:notableFor
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site of institutional abuse
site of radiation experiments
site of unethical human experimentation
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gptkbp:NRHPReferenceNumber
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93001487
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gptkbp:operatedBy
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gptkb:Commonwealth_of_Massachusetts
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gptkbp:originalName
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gptkb:Massachusetts_School_for_the_Feeble-Minded
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gptkbp:renamed
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gptkb:Fernald_State_School
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gptkbp:significantEvent
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gptkb:Quaker_Oats_radiation_experiments
exposure of abuses in the 1970s
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Massachusetts_state_hospital_system
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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6
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