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| 12:16:58 PM - Fri, Aug 6th 2010 |
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The building in the 3rd shot was razed in Oct. 2008
The rest are still there as of 8/10.
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| 8:59:56 AM - Sun, Sep 26th 2010 |
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| With a grant now awarded to N-town for the hospital, some will be used for demo. My guess.
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| 4:47:56 AM - Wed, Dec 1st 2010 |
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| Interesting, looks like someone combined a Sanborn map & an architect's drawing.
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| 10:44:16 PM - Wed, Dec 29th 2010 |
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| Hey, why is Norristown listed as an Echelon on the database? I see where its comming from but Echelon usually has a hallway with the wards branching off of them, not a hallway simply connecting the buildings basements.
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| 3:18:57 AM - Thu, Dec 30th 2010 |
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Quote:Soldat251 Wed 29th 10:44 pmHey, why is Norristown listed as an Echelon on the database? I see where its comming from but Echelon usually has a hallway with the wards branching off of them, not a hallway simply connecting the buildings basements.
I think I did that. Pretty sure I changed it after I made the building plan pages a while back, I actually used it as an example on the Echelon Plan Institutions page. Don't really remember why I made that classification, I think it was the result of a building style discussion on the old forum.
What are you thinking Soldat? What would you classify it as? Personally I think Norristown is a hard one to pin a classification on. If memory serves, it was the first non Kirkbride hospital that Pennsylvania built. It always struck me as they didn't want a kirk, but they were afraid to dedicate to the true cottage plan. Hence the reason it looks like a kirk on the building plans, even though it obviously isn't. I really don't think it should be called a cottage plan either. Perhaps a Kirk-Echelon-Cottage Hybrid? 
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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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| 7:12:32 AM - Thu, Dec 30th 2010 |
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Then I got bored and decided to take all the connecting hallways away with Paint.
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| 2:02:29 PM - Thu, Dec 30th 2010 |
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Quote:Soldat251 Thu 30th 7:12 amThen I got bored and decided to take all the connecting hallways away with Paint.
YAY! Soldat found a new Kirkbride! 
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| 2:08:53 PM - Thu, Dec 30th 2010 |
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| Perhaps we need to come up with some sort of transitional plan for the Kirkbride to Cottage time period? I think we can also consider Wernersville State Hospital as a transitional plan like Norristown. Thoughts???
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| 9:52:24 PM - Mon, Aug 29th 2011 |
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Corridor connected Pavilion plan. Like Clarinda.
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