1921 – Nurses’ Home, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto

“The new Nurses’ Home of St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, now in course of erection, will give accommodation for one hundred and fifty nurses, one hundred of whom will have individual looms, while every nurse will have an individual clothes closet. These rooms occupy the six upper floors of the building, on each of which lavatories are placed permitting every floor to be used as a separate unit. The roof is laid with promenade tile and will be used for open air recreation, being accessible by the main stairs and an automatic electric elevator.

The ground floor has apartments for the head nurse, reception room and library for the nurses and also a large assembly room. The basement has a large room for the auxiliary, small kitchen and lavatory, and trunk and storage rooms.

The building has a frontage of 1’2 feet on Shuter Street and a depth of 100 feet. It is of reinforced concrete construction with hollow terra cotta tile walls, brick veneered on the external face. Two reinforced concrete trusses cross the first floor, giving a clear span to the ceiling of the assembly room while carrying the six upper floors of the building. The exterior of the front portion of the structure is faced with red pressed brick with stone trimmings, while the rear portion is faced with red stock brick.

The interior throughout is plastered in hard finish and oil painted, the doors, trim and floors being of selected birch finished a gloss in natural color. Electricity will lie used for the lighting and a forced hot water system for the heating, the lavatory partitions throughout being of the sheet metal finished with white enamel.”
Construction, November 1920

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