The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1911-03-25
new BRICK HOSPITAL
PLANS Are COMPLETED
Contractors Making Figures Hospital
Contains Many Improvements Over First Draft Will be Mod
Every Particular and Will Likely Cost sS5,ooo Moth
ing as Good in Western North Dakota.

Completed plans for the magnificent
Sisters hospital. TO be erected on the
hill just east of the water tower, have
been received and contractors of the city
are spending most of their time in the
Knights of Columbus hall examining
them and getting estimates ready for
April II.
The final plans are a great improve
ment over those first submitted in
utility of space and convenience of SER
vice.
The front, extending 153 feet east and
west, has a center entrance and will
have effective lighting from clusters Of
lights on porch pedestals. The center
gable is to be surmountcd by hand
some metal cross. AS before stated,
three winas extend north, two eighty
five. feet and the center ninety-four feet,
from the main building. .&
In the basement under the east wing
is. the laundry, in front of which are
two chambers. Under the west wing are
the vegetable cellar and storage, meat
kitchen and refrigerator room, complet-
ing that side. The space under the
center wing is devoted to boiler room
and ice making machinery.
In the center front of the basement is
storage room, back of which is cor
ridor leading back to elevators, toilets
dust and clothes chutes, pantry and
dumb walters; left to the dining room
on the front and kitchen; and right to
laboratory, writing rooms and morgue.
Both floor plans are similar-a row Of
rooms along the front with corridor
back of them extending the entire width
of the building and terminating in sun
parlors east and west; three corridors
extend north from this to the rooms
of the wings. The center stairway has
been replaced by main staircases ii
each end anda smaller one in the center
wing. The first floor has in front. office
at the left and reception room ct the
right of the vestibule and five chambers
on each side. Each wing has large
ward and double room, and the center
wing has six chambers. The center.
back of the main corridor, has lockers
to the right and the toilets. baths, ele-
vators. chutes and diet kitchen on the
left as below, with receiving room
near the elevator. Patients will be
taken to this room from rear entrance
between the west and center wings.
The second floor has the same general
ARRANGEMENT as to corridors. The front
has nine rooms, the center being allot-
ted to chapel, sacristy. etc. The right
and left wings here are two large wards
undivided. The center wing is the
operating room, with steriliizng and
etheriizng rooms adjoining, prescription,
doctors, dark aud electrical rooms,
toilets and elevators, occupying the re-
manning space to the corridor.
The floors. except the front rooms on
the first floor, where oak will be used,
are to be American monolith, the in
terror finish, oak and white enamel.
The roof will be slate and the cornice
galvanized iron. The ventilating sys-
TEN should be perfect. From five large
vents in the roof vents extend to all the
rooms.
It would seem that nothing has been
forgotten or left undone to make this
the best hospital in this part. of the
state and while the architectural design
is not ornate it is very pleasing and
will be very imposing on the high
location.
The advisory building committee il
composed of the following gentlemen
Frank Lish, chairman; Dr.. R. H. Beach,
secretary Geo. M. Frye, W. L. Rich
ards, DR.. v. H. Stickney, Dr.. j. W.
Bowen, B. H. Crawford and L. H.
Nichols. Rev. Fr. John Dignam repre-.
sents Bishop Wehrle.
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