People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — PROPOSED HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE TO BE EREOTBD AT ROCK ISLAND, ILL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PROPOSED HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE TO BE EREOTBD AT ROCK ISLAND, ILL

Plans for the new state insane asylum at Rock Island have been approved and Lewis M. Curry, the architect, has advertised for bids. The building, which is to cost about SIOO,OOO. will be of stone, rough -ind dressed, with some brickwork, and will be fireproof throughout. It is to follow a modified “cottage plan” of construction, combining isolation of patients’ homes with centralization of the administrative functions. Surrounding the central administration building will

be six two-story ward buildings, or cottages. connected with the former by covered runways. In the one will be gathered the kitchen, the dining-rooms, laundry and bakery; in the others the patients will have their sleeping lounging and reading rooms. At the meeting in the architect’s office last week there were present, besides Gov. Altgeld. William S. Gale of Galesburg. John S. Eden of Sullivan, and T. J. Medill of Rock Island, composing the asylum trustee board, and

Dr. Arthur Reynolds of Chicago, George W. Curtiss of Stockton, and James McNabb of Carrollton, three of the four members of the state board of charities. All gave the plans their approval. Mr. Curry supervised the construction of the Industrial Home for the Blind, built at Chicago, and also was architect for the Home for Juvenile Offenders at Geneva. 111. Work on the new building will be begun not later than May 1.