Chester Hospital, Chester, Pa. [graphic] / Ballinger & Perrot, architects & engineers, Phila., Pa.

Format:

Image

Author/Creator:

Ballinger & Perrot.

Contributor:

Ballinger Company.

Visual Materials Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospitals--Pennsylvania--Chester.

Barclay, Penn & 9th Sts. (Chester (Pa.).

Chester Hospital Complex (Chester, Pa.).

Robert H. Crozer Memorial Hospital (Chester Hospital, Chester, Pa.).

Chester Hospital Complex (Chester, Pa.) Laundry & Boiler House.

Chester Hospital Complex (Chester, Pa.) Surgical Wing.

Chester Hospital Complex (Chester, Pa.) Operating Building.

Local Subjects:

Barclay, Penn & 9th Sts. (Chester (Pa.).

Chester Hospital Complex (Chester, Pa.).

Robert H. Crozer Memorial Hospital (Chester Hospital, Chester, Pa.).

Chester Hospital Complex (Chester, Pa.) Laundry & Boiler House.

Chester Hospital Complex (Chester, Pa.) Surgical Wing.

Chester Hospital Complex (Chester, Pa.) Operating Building.

Genre:

Architectural drawings.

Physical Description:

51 photoprints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.

Contained In:

Ballinger Company. Architectural drawings of the work of Ballinger & Perrot, and the successor Ballinger Company.

Place of Publication:

1917-[1923]

Notes:

Ballinger log book 2, p. 111 lists photo numbers 2588-2591, 2628, 2899-2902, 2955-2956, 2974-2984, 3180-3181, 3196, and 3234-3236(absent) & 3274(absent). Ballinger log book 2, p. 184 lists photo numbers 3296(absent), 3353, 3389, 3409, 3472, 3486, 3694, 3698, 3801, 3817-3833, and 3871. Photo nos. 2628, 2899-2902, 3694, 3801, 3817-3819, & 3871 are architectural drawings. Nos. 2899-2902 are comprehensive plans at a site within Barclay St., Penn St. & 9th St. Multiple buildings are shown, including: [1] Children's Building [2] Nurses Home [3] West wing / Administration / Kitchen / East Wing / Operating Building [4] Help's Quarters / Laundry / Power House [5] Garage & Chauffer's House [6] Maternity Building [7] Isolation Building. Later comprehensive drawings, nos. 3817-3819 show the layout of buildings at the end of the Ballinger additions project. Photo nos. 3801 & 3871 are rendered perspectives of the new structures. Date of 38xx photos estimated from other photos in this series.

Photo nos. 3698 & 3822 show the entrance to "Robert H. Crozer Hospital." This entrance appears in photos 3831-32 & 3817 as an entrance to the Robert H. Crozer Memorial Hospital [wing] of the Chester Hospital, between the Surgical Wing and the Laundry & Boiler House. Photo 3817 shows entrance to the Hospital Complex from Penn Street, leading to a circular drive at these new Ballinger structures, including the Operating Pavilion, as well as the three noted above. Separate entrances from Barclay & 9th Sts. access other buildings of the complex.

Forms part of: Ballinger Company. Architectural photographs of the work of Ballinger & Perrot, and the successor Ballinger Company.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of the Ballinger Co.,