The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-12
NURSES HOME
TO Be FINISHED
BY MAY |, 1920
Contract With C. M. Cruick-
shank of New York
AGREED PRICE, IS $4,000
MIR. Putnam Well Pleased With Modi-
fed Plans for Latest Addition
to Hospital

The contract for the nurses home to
be built on the property of the Henry
w. Putnam Memorial hospital assoc
,iation has been let to Clinton Nj
Cruikshank of 1O3 Park Avenue, New
Pork. The contract price is s7S,lOC
and the stipulations are that the
home shall be completed by May /
1920. Mr.. Cruikshank, who may also
build the proposed addition to the
main hospital building states that he
will begin operations Ieptember
and that he expects TO have the home
finished before the date specified In
the contract
Henry w. Putnam, who has been In
Bennington for week returning to
New York Monday, has gone over the
plans with the building committee and
has expressed himself as well pleased
with the work of the architect, Harry
Leslie OF New York. During Mr.. Put
nam's stay in Bennington some
changes were made in the interior ar
rangements that will add to the con
venience and comfort of the young
women who viii make the building
their home Judging from the plans
the nurses who will be connected with
the hospital in the near future will
have abundant reason to be thankful
for the consideration that will have
been taken for them in their work.
Since the plans were first made a
change has been instituted for the
principal purpose of adding more
rooms for the nurses. The length of
the building has been increased from
81 to 107 feet the original width OF
So feet having been retained The
site of the building is on side hill
which will permit structure of three
stories in the rear and two in front
The lower floor will front to the
south and the second in which the liv-
ing room will be located viii front
TO the north.
On the ground floor will be located
the equipment for the nurses training
school which will be conducted i'll con.
nection .sith the hospital. There will
be domestic science room, a lecture
room. demonstration room and an
isolation suite. There likewise will
be several sleeping rooms for nurses
in addition to the trunk room and the
boiler and fuel room.
The main floor will be taken up by
the large commodious living room, 80
by 90 feet, suites for the superinten-
dent and staff. the vestibule and stair
case and several nurses rooms. There
will be fireplace in the living room
and so in the suite for the superin,
dent. The nurses will also have the
added convenience of porch II by
20 feet. The upper floor will be given
up entirely TO sleeping quarters for
ahe nurses. A feature of the upper
floor will be large sleeping porch.
An especially attractive scheme OF
interior work has been planned for
the main floor which will be entirely
in hard wood The pan calls for
beautiful panneling with high vain
scotting. Hardwood floors will he
put in throughout the building with
the exception of the bath rooms where
the floors will be of composition SINH
lar to the material used in the main
hospital. The floors of the vestibule
and porch will be of tile.
The building will be equipped with
five tub bath rooms and ten showers
and the rooms viii be walled in mar
bic
Tapestry brick like that in the main
building with similar marble trim
mings will be used in the construction