PROGRAMME FOR HOSPITAL BUILDING COMPETITION, Page 244 THE, 1908 . PVBLISHED BY ROGERS &MANSON . EIGHTYFIVE WATER STREET BOSTON MASS. I ! ISKE & CO., INC. The Entire Exterior GRUEBY HACE BRICKS Decoration of the .. IRE BRICKS Brooklyn Academy FAIENCE CO . K AND FIRST STREETS, BOSTON THE HIGHEST GRADE CONVEN­ of Music TIONAL FACE BRICKS TILES FOR FIREPLACES, MANUFACTURED illustrated in this number of THE FLOORS, TERRACES, BRICKBUILDER, is elaborately ex• * * * * * * ecuted In glazed colors, presenting FOUNTAINS AND OTHER . k with a a most satisfactory example of the ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES Tapestry B r1c s, h correct use of roug , light absorbing surface ingrays, Atluutit J' uirutr / light brown, mahogany, Indian The Harttord Faience Co. F HARTFORD, CONN. red, olive green, weathered IIEWYORK BOSTON copper and blue, producing Atlantic 1123 BROADWAY OLD SOUTH BLOii. wonderfully soft rich effects Terra Cotta ARCHITECTURAL FAIENCE not unlike an Oriental rug. ~ompany <All Colors) * * * * * FAIENCE MANTELS Successors to ARCHITECTURAL TERRA COTTA AND FAIENCE TILE AND BRICK ROOFING TILES The Atlantic Terra Cotta Company W r ite for our new catalogue. Perth Amboy Terra Cotta Company Excelsior Terra Cotta Company NEW YORK BALTIMORE Standard Terra Cotta Works I I 70 Broadway American Building WASHINCTON ROOKWOOD Home Life Building The Largest Manufacturer.s of 0. W. KETCHAM Architectural Faience Master Builders' Exchange Architectural PHILADELPHIA MAT CLAZES IN ALL COLORS ABSOLUTI:L Y PERMANENT Front Brick Terra Cotta EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR Enameled Brick Hollow Tile Fireproofing IN THE WORLD Roofing Tile THE ROOKWOOD POTTERY CO. --- CINCINNATI, OHIO GENERAL OFFICES: 1170 Broadway, New York ARCHITECTURAL TERRA COTTA · New York Office • • I Madison Avenue Works: Crum Lynne, Pa. BRANCH OFFICES: Boston • • . • , Z94 WasbJngton Street Philadelphia , • • 1308 Commonwealth Building Cenulne New England u Harvard" Bricks Pittsburg • • 1113 Fulton Building Atlanta , • 6ZZ Austell Building Brick, Terra-Cotta & lila Co. • Front • ·BRICKS ENAMELED San Francisco, Baumiller, McNear 4: Company I. E. GREGORY, PROPRIETOR Z55 California Street MAJIUP'ACTURER8 OP' ARCHITECTURAL TERRA COTTA WasbJngton, D. C., W.A. Mills, 7Z9 Fifteenth Street, N. W. Norfolk, 0. S. Friebus • Carpenter Building Buffalo, John H. 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ADVERTISING Advertisers are classified and arranged in the following order: PAGE PAGE Agencies- Clay Products II Brick Enameled III and IV Architectural Faience II Brick Waterproofing IV Terra Cotta II and III Fireproofing IV Brick III Roofing Tile IV Advertisements will be printed on cover pages only CONTENTS PLATE ILLUSTRATIONS FRoM WoRK BY HERTS & TALLANT; KELSEY & CRET; LOUIS H. SULLIVAN LETTERPRESS PAC.6 CHURCH OF ST. GEREON, COLOGNE, GERMANY . .... .. .. ...... ..... .................................. Frontispiece SANATORIA FOR CONSUMPTIVES .... .. ... .•.. .. .......................... The work of Scopes & Fr1t5lmaun 223 THE AMERICAN THEATER- XI. (THE END) ... .. .. .. ........... ......... ...... .. ... Clarence H. Blackall 232 . , .~ .• ·t1 THE NEW BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC ...... ... ;~., EDITORIAL COMMENT AND MISCELLANY .......... .... ....... 239 PROGRAMME FOR HOSPITAL BUILDING COMPETITION .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 244 EAST END, CHURCH OF ST. GEREON, COLOGNE, GERMANY. mt<!l!!!!l!! !!<!!!!!!! !li! !l !!!!>! !!!!!!!m! !!!! l •>l!>!!!!!!»>»>»>>»>»F»»>»>»>»>!»!!}>!!»!~ f!B ~~THE BRICKBVILDER I DEYOTED·TOTHE·INTERE5fJ·Of·ARCHITECTVRE:·IN MATERIAU·OfCLAY· OC~OBER ~ .._ VOL. t7 NO, tO 1908 --' t;: miE«<<<<<««<«««<<<<<<<E«<«<««BBB<«NH)>))))I)))))))))H>l>>»H>'))Hl>H))>UU)il'l'U»l:c" .. 8B .. ., . Sanatoria for Consumptives. THE WORK OF SCOPES & FEUSTMANN. HE tuberculosis sanatorium and hospital work here In this cottage, beds can be wheeled directly from the T illustrated was developed by Scopes & Feust­ bedrooms to the porches. A still further advance was mann, primarily through professional association with made in cottages, K and L, where direct light was ob­ Dr. E. L. Trudeau's Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium tained for sitting rooms and bath rooms, the shading of at Saranac Lake, New York, and from the effort on the the south bedrooms by the porch roof being avoided by part of this firm to design a proper type for a cottage making the porch here a mere passage for connecting the sanatorium. sitting and sleeping porches. Another ad vance in the A circumstance of great importance in influencing the later type of cottage over the old one was made by pro­ planning of sanatoria and tuberculosis hospitals lies in viding windows in the clothes closets. A change in de­ the fact that about eight or nine years ago, physicians sign was made in type M, in order to reduce the cost of treating tubercular patients in sanatoriums· and health these cottages, which had been gradually increasing each PLANS, RECEPTION HOSPITAL, SARANAC LAKE, N. Y. resorts began more generally to advocate out-door sleep­ year. A more compact plan has been evolved, and the ing and, particularly in acute cases, rest out of doors in transoms over the main porch provide direct light for bed during the entire day. Prior to that time, patients the sitting room. Of the cottages shown in the "Evo­ confined to their beds were compelled to remain indoors lution of the Cottage," plans I, K, L, and M were de­ just at the time when the need of the tonic effect of out­ signed by Scopes & Feustmann. door air was greatest. Receptz(m Hospz'tal at Saranac Lake. While the hospi­ The complete development of the cottage type, from tal is a purely local institution, designed especially to the inception of the Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium to meet peculiar requirements, it has, nevertheless, certain the present time, can be seen in the "Evolution of the features which would naturally commend themselves to Cottage." (See page 224.) The first attempt to adapt those who have under consideration the erection of small the plan of the cottage to the requirements of the treat­ hospitals for the treatment of tuberculosis, and more es­ ment now advocated (i.e., that no time be spent by the pecially may this hospital serve as something of a model pat\ent indoors except for meals) was made in the cot­ when it is known that its plans have stood the test of tage plan I, in which the doors to bedrooms and sitting competition, and that they have had the personal super­ rooms were made wide enough to wheel a bed through to vision of those who have been pioneers in this country in the porch. The inconvenience of this method has been the open-air treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. overcome in cottage J, designed by the late W. L. Coulter. The site is admirably adapted for the building, being 224 THE BRlCKBUILDER. ]1, R. ~ v v v: -+ --4- ~ A B c D EVOLUTION OF THE C OTTAGE. M sixty feet above Saranac Lake and commanding a good Eight rooms on the third floor are used for convales­ view of the surrounding country. cing patients who use the lower porches for their out­ One of the chief objects of this design was to intro­ door cure. duce as much sunlight as possible into the patients' The plumbing is separated from all corridors by two rooms and still retain good ample porch area. doors. The entrance is well placed, giving all patients Rooms ten feet by thirteen feet six inches have been the privacy which is desired. No provision is made for provided for twelve acute and eight convalescing internes' or doctors' quarters, because the hospital is patients. The twelve rooms for acute cases, which are visited daily by Saranac Lake physicians. confined to the first and second floors, open directly on L ean-tos and .Sitacks. To Dr.' Herbert M. King, to spacious, covered porches (one hundred square feet physician-in-chief at the Loomis Sanatorium, Liberty, being allowed each patient). Each room has two win­ N. Y., belongs