Description
From "Fourth Annual Report of the New York State Inebriate Asylum", 1866.
The second story of the transept contains three parlors, two of which are each twenty-eight feet long, twenty-four feet wide and sixteen feet high. The third parlor is thirty four feet long, seventeen feet wide and sixteen feet high. These parlors are connected by sliding doors. The transept also contains sixteen tower rooms and is also divided transversely by a hall fourteen feet wide running from front to rear entrances and longitudinally by another hall of the same width communicating at each end with the corridors of the wings. The winter garden or conservatory when completed will be eleven hundred and fifty-four feet long, twenty-four to twenty-eight feet wide and will accommodate about one million of plants, which will afford the patients recreation and study and make for the asylum a perpetual Summer. Bowling alleys billiard tables, pleasure boats on the river and an extensive gymnasium in course of construction will contribute to the exercise and amusements of the patients. The kitchen is located in the basement of the East building and is forty feet long, fifteen feet wide and ten feet high. The small kitchen attached to the large one is twenty feet long, fifteen feet wide and ten feet high. The bakery located next to the kitchen is twenty-two feet square and ten feet high. The large store room is sixty feet long fifteen feet wide and ten feet high. |