Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-07-17
Arlzona Insane Asylum.

The completion of the Arizona Insane Asylum is an event in the history of the Territory deserving of special men, ton, particularly in view of the struggle now pending to drsg the enterprise in- to the spells of politics. From the illus tration given above, it will be seen that the building is one of which Arizona has caused to be proud, especially as its cost is far below that of any similar in stitution of the kind ever before built. Much tune and care were taken by the directors before any definite plans were adopted, and they exercised every pre- caution to give the territory sucn pene- fits and advantages Rs might arise rom a sharp competition m bids Tor us con struction.
 The folloEing account and descrip- ton of the building is taken from the PhenIx Daily Herald of July oth:
 The original plans and contract Tor the construction called Tor main or executive department to consist of building 54 by 100 feet two stories higb with attic and foot basement walls to be e1cavsted under the rear portion 10 ten feet for kitchen, laundry, etc, this building to be hsnked by wings, de- partments for patients, each lO2 feet long by 5S feet ID with, these wings to be two stories with low attic and z foot basement walls thus raising them that much above the surrounding surface; they were to be joined to the main building by 16 foot open corridors thus practically detsching them in case of fire in any one section Of the building and the entire structure to be of brick.
 The principal and most important modification of this original plan was the raising of the basement walls three feet, the excavation of the basement under the entire structure the inser- ton of main division and cross walls m the basement and the finishing 1t up into corridors. cells; attendants rooms, etc, in uniformity with the two upper stories, thus making the building three stones instead of two and increasing it's capacity over fifty per cent. It WAS found that there would be Rn abundance of funds on hand to accom- plish this and that 1t could be done much cheaper during the construction of the building than at any subsequent time and furthermore it was believed that the lower story would be the most comfortable of all during the summer months which proves to be the case.
 Another important change was the entire removal of the laundry, bakery and engine room from the basement of the main building and the construction of @ detached building in the rear of the main building for those purposes.
 With the changes above indicated the entire structure was practically finished and turned over to the Board of Directors by the contractors on the Ist inst. and was accepted.
 ThC structure as completed has the following dimensions and apartments: Main building or Executive Department IS 100 feet long by 54 wide and IS three stories nigh exclusive of the attic. The height of basement in thel clear is II feet, first story l4 feet Bin, second story l2 feet 3 in., sttio eleven feet. The basement is intersected by a F foo; hall from side to side connecting with the basement corridors and by 8 IA foot hall front to rear and contains the kitchen, psutrIes, store-rooms, dispens- aries, cooks and walters rooms. closets etc. The kitchen is lSx2l and will be q model workshop of the kind and will contain cooking range, steam heater
 steam carving pans and all the apparst-
 us necessary for convenience and expe- dition in the matter of cooking.
 | Passing up the front steps of thG
 main entrance, the vestibule is first en
 tered and will be found to be sbou
 l4xl4 feet, the floor of which is nicely
 laid ID imitation tile and on either sid,
 inches ID one of which IS Q marbl,
 tablet upon which is GU. she following
 inscription;
 ERECTED MDCCCLXXXVI-.
 Directors-Oscsr Lincoln, Prescott
 M. ". Stewart, Wilcox; F. c. Hatch
 PheniX.
 Architect-w. c. Costellow. Stockton
 Cal.
 Contractors-Csrle, Croly & Aber
 nethey, Stockton, Cal.
 Passing in at the heavy doors hal
 l4xl00 feet is entered and immedistel!
 to the right are the offices for the Super
 intending Physician connected ty fold
 ing doors; ID the rear of these on tn
 same sIde IS a private psrlor. On thu
 left of the iron: part of the hall Is a sui
 of rooms designed for Directors office
 also connected by folding doors and II
 the rear of these offices on the same sid'
 is the stair case leading 10 the storie
 above and below. About half way bscl , the main hall is intersected by hall l. , feet wlde connecting with the corrider of the wings on ei:her side of the mail building. Back of this transverse hal on the left hand side IS 8 store room snC
 the hospital, on the right hand side to , closet and bath room and two attend , ants rooms. In the second story of thl . main building are the psrlors and liy , ing rooms for the superintendents fam lily, the linen room, attendants rooms
 dining room. pantries and dumb waiter
 to the kitchen. The first and secon, floors in thIs department are elegant, grained throughout, the walls hard-fin- } ished and rooms csrpeted with bod, , Brussels and furnished with black wal } nut furniture finished in blue and scar ? let plush and all furnished by the enter Q prisIng firm of Schoenfeld < HeymaD of this city. The basement is painted plain white. The kitchen is furnished with made stone floors. and all outsId, : door sills are made stone.
 The wings are entered either iron . the man building by the open corri- } dors from either floor, from the outsId' } ends by a flight of steps and wide door into the corridors of the first floor ol from the walled back yards into th, basements and through which latte passages the patients will pass to tht open sir of the patients yards
 The wings are each l02 feet in lengtl 3 by 5S feet wide, and have bssements first and second stories, all of the ssm'
 heighth as corresponding stories il
 main building, and s foot sttics. Th' , building, over all, IS thus about 300 fee } long. 100 feet wI1e in the extreme, snC ; three stories high. In each story of th' wings are l3 cells, holding from two t' . six patients each, Q large dining room