Buildings - Historic
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Buildings - Historic
Description
Documentation of the buildings at the Eastern Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium - Lost and Preserved.
Collection Items
Patients Pavilion
East elevation.
The wood frame open-air patients pavilion with screened-in sleeping porches and private dressing rooms provided female patients the benefit of mountain air while sleeping.
This building no longer exists, but is documented by the…
Patients Pavilion - Collection of Dr. Forrest P. Baker
Photographs of the Patients Pavilion from the collection of Dr. Forrest Pitt Baker including a group photograph of the "Girls on the Porch". The pavilion was divided Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest porches.
These photographs…
Administration Building
East elevation.
The administration building housed the general offices, laboratory, drug room, x-ray room, operating room, examination room, kitchen, and general dining room on the first floor. Rooms for female employees were located on the second…
Administration Building - Collection of Dr. Forrest P. Baker
West elevation looking south.
By 1921 plans for tuberculosis sanatoriums had became fairly standardized and institutions were designed to promote ease and economy in maintaining a facility.
Sanatoriums were comprised of two parts; one for housing…
Administration Building - Tulsa Tribune
Photo of the sanatorium's hospital (left) and administration building (right) clipped from article titled "There's Health in Those Mountains of Oklahoma, at Gateway to the Ozarks" published in the December 7, 1930 edition of the Tulsa…
Hospital
North elevation.
In 1924, another medical building was constructed that accommodated 50 male patients and housed a diet kitchen, treatment room, pharmacy, and general work rooms. The building's floor-plan placed each patient on the south side to…
Hospital - The Sign-Post
Photo of the hospital (recognizable by its steeple) published in The Sign-Post, an Oklahoma State Board for Vocational Rehabilitation Division of Vocational Rehabilitation publication.
The publication is undated, but based on the reference to Dr.…
Nurses Home - Collection of Dr. Forrest P. Baker
South elevation.
In July 1925, the Legislature appropriated $45,000 for the construction of a new nurses home at the sanatorium.
Constructed in 1926, the new nurses home provided amenities such as hot and cold water in each room, linen closet, and…
Service Building
East elevation.
Constructed in 1928, the Service Building housed the kitchen, dining room, store, cold storage room, and a large auditorium, as well as employee quarters upstairs.
This photo also features an important symbol associated with the…
Service Building - Collection of Dr. Forrest P. Baker
Photos of the east elevation (entrance) and south elevation (side).
A plaque in the Service Building’s auditorium identifies the architects as Layton Hicks and Forsyth of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - architects of the State Capitol and other historic…