The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-08-19
TO BUILD THIS YEAR
W. Max Dunuing Of Chicago Com.
pIetes Plans for Greater
Kenosha Hospital
HANDSOME 4.SToRY BUILDING
President Simmons States That the
Work Will be Started This
Summer and Rushed
to Completion

W. Max Cunning Of Chicago, the
well known architect of public build
ings, has completed the plans for the
new Kenosha hospital and the plans
and detailed specifications for the
building will be presented to the
Board of Directors of the association
at a meeting to be held on next Mon
Gay afternoon. The plans have been
accepted by the directors and it is
the purpose of the Board to proceed
at once with the erection of the hos
pital. The building will be hand
some four-story structure of brick and
fire proof. 1t will be erected on the
site recently purchased by the associa-
tion on South Chicago street and if the
plans do not miscarry it will be ready
for occupancy early in the summer Of
1910. The Board has been most
fortunate in securing plans for the hos
pital and working with Mr.. Dunning.
in the making Of the plans and speci-
fcations were Smith, Gardiner and
Martin, the best known designers of
hospital buildings in the world. These
men gave their best expert advice to
make the Kenosha hospital a perfect
hospital building and the members of
the Board of Directors feel that when
the new building is\completed the Ke
nosha hospital will be the superior of
any similar institution in a city the
size of Kenosha in the United States.
The hospital will have capacity of
fifty beds with total of twenty-five
private rooms. 1t will have large
operating rooms, general Offices and re
ception rooms and rooms for the use
OF convalescents. In addition to this
the large grounds purchased will make
it possible for the directors to add
park for the use of the patients.
In making the plans the architect
has not been hampered, but he has
been instructed to make the building as
complete as possible It is estimated
that the cost of the building and the
equipment, which will be the most
modern known to the hospital art, will
be in the neighborhood Of $4,000.
President Simmons when seen this
morning said: "We have had very
favorable arrangement in getting plans
for the new Kenosha hospital as Mr..
Cunning has worked with Smith, Gar
diner and Martin on the plans and we
feel that they are about as near per
feet plan for hospital as it would be
possible to get. 1t is our plan to start
the work at once We do not care to
talk about the financial side of the
new building just at the present time,
but we shall give out some interesting
facts along this line within short
time"
Ever since the movement for the
erection of the new hospital was start
ed the committee in charge Of raising
the funds for the institution has
been busy at work. This committee
started out with the plan of securing
money enough for the erection of the
building and it is certain that this
plan will be realized. After the
building is built and equipped the gen
eral public will be asked to aid in
the support Of it and subscriptions re-
ceived for this fund will be laid aside
to be used as an endowment fund,
The present Kenosha hospital is self
sustaining and after time it is
thought that the new institution will
also be self sustaining, but the ex-
: penses of operation will be much great
er. Of course after the opening of
the new hospital the property now in
use will be placed on the market and
sold.
Chances >of another hospital in Keno
sha are considered very. bright at this
time as the Notre Dame Sisters in
charge of st. Mary's Hospital in Ra-
cine have been in the city several
times in the past few weeks looking
over available sites for hospital 1t
is thought certain that this hospital
if built will be on the north side of
the city as the patronage of the Sis
ters has been largely drawn from that
part of the city. The Racine hospital
has taken care of many Kenosha
patients in the past few, months
and this has led the Sisterhood
to consluer a plan for building in Ke-
nosha. sites on Lake avenue and
Milwaukee avenue have been consid4
cred by the Sisters but as yet they
have not purchased any property or
taken an option.
There is being lots of complaint on
account of the drinking fountains on