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The hospital building consists of three
units joined by wide breezeways. The center unit was an
administrative section, containing the post surgeon's office,
dispensary, kitchen, dining room, hospital steward's room, linen
room, storeroom, and an isolation ward. The two end units were
twelve-bed hospital wards.
FLOOR PLAN OF
HOSPITAL BUILDING
VIEW LARGE FORMAT
Last summer students and volunteers
in the University of Vermont's field school at the Fort fabricated
and installed three windows in the hospital steward's room,
constructed floors in the administrative hallway and the hospital
steward's room, and conserved and restored historic plaster on
interior walls in the administrative unit.
Eventually the Friends of the Fort
will completely restore the interiors of the north ward and three
rooms in the administrative unit and furnish the ward and two rooms
in the administrative unit as they were in the 1880s. In 2002 the
Friends acquired a superb collection of late 19th-century medical
instruments which will be used to interpret the building.
But first we need to raise an additional $140,000 in cash or in-kind
donations in order to match our Save America's Treasures grant. |
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