Built in 1818, this site housed Augusta’s first city hospital to provide for the “sick poor” of Augusta. It later evolved into the present University Hospital. Using two borrowed rooms at the city hospital, Georgia’s first school of medicine opened its doors as the Medical Academy of Georgia in 1829. Functioning as an academic facility until 1835, the school was then renamed as the Medical College of Georgia and moved to the corner of 6th and Telfair Streets. In 1869 the hospital itself moved its facilities leaving the location dormant for 2 years, at which time the Widows Home Society was formed and began utilizing it to house eight to ten confederate widows deemed “worthy women” and continued so for over a century. In 2002 the Widows Home closed and the building sold multiple times over the years until it was donated to the Christ Community Health Services with the understanding for it to be renovated and used to help medically underserved in Augusta. In 2011 the building was renamed the Ann Boardman Widows Home.