The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-08-28
PORT OF NEWPORT NEWS. VA, AUG.
27 1901
ARRIVED.
MAKING BIG IMPROTEMENTs.
A New Building for the University College
OF Medicine,

A New Building for the University College
OF Medicine.
The University College Of Medicine Is
making extensive improvements for the
coming session, including handsome
four-story building which viii be tho
roughly equipped with all the modern con-
yeniences and apparatus The work Is be
ing pushed forward with all possible
speed and It is expected that 1t VIII be
complete by October lst.
The college will open for the regular
work Of the session on September JUN.
The preliminary examinations for adyanc-
ed standing will be held ON September
10Th.
Tbe nrincipal improvements being made
is the erection Of the handsome new
building Immediately in rear of the old
building. and opening on the Twelfth
street side This is one hundred by eighty
feet. 1t is four stories high including the
basement aud will have one million brick
In H.
The principal entrance IS from the
Twelfth street side. where there VIII be
court in front. In the basement VIII be
the Free Dispensary and waiting rooms.
Glass covered corridors viii connect the
new and the old buildings. On the
Twelfth street side in the Easements VIII
be also the prescription departments OF
the Dispensary. There viii be six con-
sulting rooms on the opposite side, and
on the southside will be a room for minor
operations.
on the side OF the building next TO the
virginia Hospital Will be located the three
large dental laboratory rooms. In the
Easements Will also be the heating APP
paratus and the bOiler-roOm and an ele-
yator shaft will run thence 10 the top of
the building.
ON the first floor Will be the Eye. Ear
and Throat Department, ana dark rooms.
These will be- i'm the center. On the
Twelfth street side via be lecture room
for 10 men, with q professors private
room adjourning. Next TO this on the
cast-side will be a large apartment 20 be
used for the students assembly room, ana
on the side next 10 the hospital will be
the three large rooms for the laboratories
Of the pharmacy department
on the second floor in the centre will be
the large amphitheatre with seats for $50
people. This covers two floors extending
I'm a diagonal direction. on the north
side of this floor are three large rooms
for histology, pathology and bacteriology
laboratories. and on tho alley side are
four rooms for the physiological labora-
tory.
The third floor Is devoted chiefly TO the
dental inhrmary. il will have twenty
dental chairs. and twenty windows ex-
tending nearly all the way around the
building
Several changes are being made in the
old building. Notable among these IS the
construction Of a bridge connecting the
college with the hospital and leading d.
rectly into the operating amphitheatre OF
the latter The chemical laboratory in the
old building IS also being enlarged, and
the halls are being remodeled, and a spa
cious lobby added. The broad stairways
are lighted from sky-lights. There viii be
handsome balustrades and wainscoting,
and at the head Of the stair cases are en-
frances from the old building 10 the new.
The new building together with the 9TH
er improvements will cost about $4,000.