Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-21
MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL
Commissioners Solicit Designs for the
Several Structures
TO Be ERECTED ON RUPERT TRACT
Congress Appropriated 500,
for Purchase of Site.
COST WAS ONLY $50, 900

Details Of the program submitted to
the architects of the city for their
government in a competitive contest for
designs and plans for the proposed new
municipal hospital. mentioned In The Star
of yesterday, show that the Commissioners
propose to leave nothing undone In the
architectural features OF the new instku-
ton. The hospital is to be erected on the
Rupert tract, on the Brightwood road
which has been purchased at a cost Of $60.-
600. The appropriation for the buildings
will not be asked for until a selection is
ing solicited. At the time Of appropriating
$4,000 for the purchase OF site Con-
gress also provided $1,000 for the prepara-
ton of plans. The regulations promul-
gated yesterday provide that all plans must
be in by October Is at noon. The buildings
for which designs are asked are an admin
istration building, service building, ward
building, superintendent residence, nurses
quarters. mortuary building and stable.
Architects are asked to keep In mind that
the general arrangement of the buildings
should be as symmetrical as possible, TAX
ing the center of 18th street extended as
the main axis. 1t is intended to carry 18th
street under the administration building as
a main thoroughfare, the surface of the
roadway being about 20 feet below the
surface of the ground upon which the build
ing stands.
Each set Of plans must be accompanied
by a descriptive memorandum. together
with estimate OF the cost of each Of
the buildings, including plumbing. eleva-
tors. apparatus for heating, ventilating and
lighting, and all other necessary appli-
ances; also the estimated cost Of the in
stitution complete in the basis Of accom-
modations for 400 beds
The ultimate capacity OF the hospital is
intended to be not less than 800 beds. For
the present, however, ward accommoda-
ticns for approximately 400. beds are de-
sired. It may therefore probably be well
to base the estimates for the administra-
ton and service uildings upon the ulti-
mate capacity Of the hospital, although the
architect is at liberty to modify his esti-
mates to present needs II he finds this can
be done advantageously. the buildings be-
ing so designed as to admit of necessary ad-
ditions hereafter. The estimate for the
wards should be based upon accommoda-
lions for approximately 400 beds.
Compensation of Architect.
The competition will be adjudged by the
Commissioners Of the District Of Columbia
acting with one architect selected by the
competing architects. The architect so Sc
lected must be named by October %, 1901.
otherwise the Commissioners will proceed
to adjudge the competition themselves.
The Commissioners reserve the right to
reject any and all plans, If none are salts
factory, or to make such changes or alter
atoms in accepted plans as they may deem
necessary or desirable.
The architect whose plans for the whole
institution are accepted will be paid the
sum of 5000, and the plans will become
the property Of the District Of Columbia.
The board Of Commissioners will endeav-
or to arrange for the subsequent employ
ment of the successful architect to prepare
the specifications and working drawings for
the buildings, or for such portion of them
as Congress may provide by appropriations
For this service the architect will be paid
at the rate 81 per cent Of the actual cost
Of such buildings. less, however, $1,000. the
amount Of the prize hereinbefore provided
for.
Should the plans Of any particular build
Ing, submitted by an architect who does
not receive the award for the entire fnsti-
tuition. appear particularly desirable. the
Commissioners reserve the right to retain
ment Of $500. the plans to become the
property Of the District of Columbia.
General Requirements.
While the Commissioners have been au-
thorized to prepare plans, specifications
and estimates Of cost Of municipal hos
pital, no limits have been fixed upon either
the size OF the institution or upon the cost
thereof It Is estimated, however, that the
immediate needs Of the District require
hospital OF approximately four hundred
beds, and that any institution now erected
should be susceptible Of being extended
so as to accommodate eight hundred pa
tents, in order to meet the future needs Of
the community. 1t Is desired that the con-
struction be plain and substantial, having
due regard to economy, but sacrificing no
essential Of q modern hospital thereto. The
general exterior design should be ornate
rather than elaborate. The plans. specifi-
cations and estimates Of cost should in
clude everything requisite to thoroughly
equipped. up-to-date hospital.
Reception of All Glasses.
The proposed municipal hospital is in
tended for the reception of all classes Of
cases. The pavilion plan has. therefore,
been definitely adopted as the scheme Of
construction best to be followed. It will
consist, therefore, OF an administration
building, domestic-service building, q
mortuary, a residence for the superintend-
ent, stable. nurses home and sundry
ward buildings.
The administration building should be To-
Gated in the line of 18th street extended,
facing south The basement should con-
tain file rooms for the records Of the insti-
tuition, q carpenter shop, store rooms for
furniture temporarily out of use, and sun
dry other store rooms. It's floor should
be about four feet below grade, and an
area should extend around the entire wall
floor should be about six feet above grade
and is to contain the general office, with
connected Office and file room and waiting
room; private office for the superintend-
ent. with attached waiting room; a tele-
phone exchange room; q coat room for
visitors to the institution, including es-
pecially visitors to the wards; waiting
room for the atendintg staff: pharmacy,
with an associated store room for drugs;
elevators, and toilet rooms for the laospi-
tai staff and for the general public. The
lobby should be 80 arranged that persons
entering the building find their way at
once to the general office, but may pass d.
rectly to the coat room and thence to the
covered ways leading to the wards The
general Office should contain facilities for
handling the mail of the institution and
for caring for such valuables as come into
its possession. The second floor should
contain dining room for the house on
GERS. with connected serving room; q IL
brary and reading room, a. lounging room
for the house staff, a lecture room for
nurses, which can be used also for A
chapel. with attached office for supertn-
tendent Of nurses. and necessary toilet
rooms. The third floor and any higher
floors are to contain sleeping rooms for
the house staff, with all necessary toilet
accommodations. The space between the