The white frame two-story building in this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate has two gabled wings, each with covered porches. Patients sit outside the building to enjoy the fresh air and the lawn and trees.
Contributors
Nebraska. Board of Commissioners of State Institutions
Excerpted from: "Third Biennial Report of the Superintendent of the Hospital for Tuberculous, Kearney, Nebraska" In Second Biennial Report of the Board of Commissioners of State Institutions to the Governor and Legislature of the State of Nebraska for the Biennium Ending November 30, 1916 (Lincoln: Nebraska Board of Commissioners of State Institutions, 1914), plate between pp. 324-325.
Historical Notes
Built in 1912, the pavilion's central structure held a living room, nurses' office, toilet, dining room and kitchen on the first floor and an assembly room on the second floor. The wings each had rows of rooms about 11 x 14 feet with French doors opening onto the south facing porch. The transom windows in the gable over the porch helped bring in the winter sun. The west wing had 10 rooms and the east six, with two patients assigned to each room. By 1916 the superintendent was already requesting funds for needed repairs to the building and for a new staircase to the second floor as the existing narrow staircase presented a fire hazard and prevented them from using the upper floor.
