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| 6:00:22 AM - Thu, Dec 30th 2010 |
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Modified kirk, Cottage-kirk? I dont know, but I wouldn't say echelon.
Norristown is the next logical step in hospital architecture beyond kirkbrides.
Look the original kirkbride design, the wards all connect directly to one another, like we see at Trenton, Taunton, Greystone, etc.
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But of course then they found problems with the proximity of the wards, so we saw hospital like Buffalo and Topeka, where the wards are instead spaced out by being connected by curving hallways.
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So then this may be a more extreme separation of the kirkbrides wards that we see at Topeka and Buffalo while still aiming to follow the general kirkbide building style. Or it may be an attempt at a cottage plan hospital but then also why lay it out in the kirkbride fashion if not to follow the kirkride plan to at least a degree? Since it was built so close to Philadelphia during Kirkbrides life it feel it may be in fact have been built to be a kirkbride plan.
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