The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-06-13
Milwaukee Architects Present Plans
For the Building to Be Erected
by z. G. Simmons.
IA MODEL HOSPITAL BUILDING.
Buemming & Dick, of Milwaukee, Plan to
Build the Finest Hospital in the State
Plans Not as Yet Accepted.

Buetnming & Dick, the Milwaukee
architects, have sent to Hon. z. G.
Simmons a set of designs for the
emergency hospital which he will pre-
sent to the city during the coming
summer. While no site has as yet
been secured for the building it is
probable that a selection will be made
within few days in order to allow the
work to start before the first of July.
The plans as presented by the Milwau-
kee architects pr vide for the building
of a model hospital and one that will
be etter arranged than any other hos
pital in the state. In making the
plans the architects conferred not only
with Mr.. Simmons, but with many
physicians in the state and it is claimed
that the hospital will be model build
ing for the purpose for which it is to
be used.
The dimensions of the building will
be 154 feet by 95H feet. The building
will be one story in height and of
brick and structural iron making it
absolutely Ere proof. It is to be heated
with the city heat. The finishings of
the building will be of stone and there
is cient,ornamentation to give the
whole a classic effect. While the
building will be of but one story it
will contain an abundance of room for
hospital for a town of fifty thousand
people. The rooms are splendid1y ar
ranged and perfect systems Of ventia
ton are provided.
The plan is to build the building on
the lake shore facing the west. The
front part of the building will be di-
vided into three distinct parts. In the
center will be series of rooms in
which will be provided reception rooms,
a dining room, the office of the head
nurse and the Office of the surgeon.
Immediately back of this part of the
building, shut off by ''shut off" cor
ridor, will be provided rooms to be used
as laundry and drying room. In
the same department will be the pam
try and kitchen.
On either side of the central portion
Of the building will be the two wings
some 95 feet in length. These wings
are connected with the main building
by two wide and spacious corridors to
be used for sun corridors. In the
north wing the front rooms will be used
for wards and accommodations will be
provided for at least fourteen patients.
Back of the wards there will be
number of rooms for the use Of doctors
and their assistants. Here will be To-
Gated rooms for the nurses, with a
kitchen and bath room in connection,
a room for the preparation of patients
for the operating room, the etherizing
room, the operating room and steri1iz-
ing rooms for the use of the doctors in
charge. In the opposite wing of the
building will be located nine wards for
patients, taking up the entire front
part of the wing. Ia the rear large
rooms, four in number, will be CON
structed for the use of patients opposed
to remaining in wards. In connection
with these rooms the hospital will
have other rooms for the nurses in
charge, bath and toilet rooms and
closets in which will be kept the
clothes Of the patients.
The plans will probably be accepted
by Mr.. Simmons within short time
and the contracts for the work let.
According to the plans Mr.. Simmons
intends to spend over thirty thousand
dollars on the building in order to
make it a model for Wisconsin cities.
If possible the hospital will be
erected on the lake shore and sufficient
grounds will be secured to allow the
laying out OF small park for the use
of the patients and the nurses in
charge.
The hospital has always been close
to Mr.. Simmons heart and it is proba-
bic that before he has completed the
work it will be building that will at
tract great deal of notice to Kenosha.