. Brockville illustrated, 1894 : its growth, resources, commerce, manufacturing interests, educational advantages : also sketches of the leading business concerns which contribute to the city's progress and prosperity : history of the island city from its foundation to the present time. th, to the St. Lawrence river on the south, while the main road from Brockvilleto Preicott passes through it at a distance of about 800 feet from the river. Thebuildings are erected on the highest point of the lot, 154 feet above the river andabout 1,000 feet north of the road. The location is one of the most b
. Brockville illustrated, 1894 : its growth, resources, commerce, manufacturing interests, educational advantages : also sketches of the leading business concerns which contribute to the city's progress and prosperity : history of the island city from its foundation to the present time. th, to the St. Lawrence river on the south, while the main road from Brockvilleto Preicott passes through it at a distance of about 800 feet from the river. Thebuildings are erected on the highest point of the lot, 154 feet above the river andabout 1,000 feet north of the road. The location is one of the most beautiful onthe St. Lawrence, and affords a view ^or miles up and down the magnificent oldriver. Nature or art could not have designed a grander spot for the habitation ofthe earths afflicted ones, and if surroundings exert any influence on the minds ofthose unfortunates, the inmates of the Eastern Ontario asylum will have all theadvantages to be derived from the most beautifully located institution of its class inAmerica. The main building, for acute patients, is 400 feet in front, and 50 feetin width, with projection for dining and day rooms, with dormitories 72 feet inwidth. The administration building and officers apartments are in a building 60 ILLUSTRATEI). 21. ;:Et\ ^LT-b eT^ I UM FOR THE INSANE. feet square, in the centre, and 50 feet distant from the main buildings connected bya passage. The kitchen and pantries are connected with the dining rooms on eachside, immediately in rear of the central corridors, and the sculleries and store roomare connected with the kitchen. The bakery is in the basement under the kitchen,and the laundry, boiler hose, chimney, coal vault and stewards store rooms, alsofmd a place in the basement, to the rear of the bakery. The projection for theseis 200 feet by 40 feet, with wings 34x40 feet. The ground floor contains the stew-ards office and store rooms. The ironing and drying rooms are over the laundry inthe western proje
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