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/ v . THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1930 | Beautiful Structure Recently Erected on Centre Street | Is New Home of Children's Aid The Plumbing and Heating CHILDREN'S SHELTER installed by the up-to- date firm of tent. D. GARRARD Plumber was 116 Brock St. E. Phone 726 This firm is noted for reliable Plumbing and Heating jobs of all kinds. Estimates given on request J mgm dition was certain. a ardw Flooring MB------ | | i The planning of the Children's Shelter proved to be a very interesting piece of work in that it meant the development of a building along entirely new lines as far as lay-out was concerned. Children's Shelters hitherto had been almost entirely confined to adapting residences to the exi- gencies of the circumstances. In this case new ground was to be broken and a type of building evolved which would meet all the requirements of an institutional building and still retain the homelike atinosphere so essential for the purposes for which the Children's Aid Society exists, A preliminary survey indicated that the building must be constructed as nearly fireproof as possible and provide facilities for sleeping accommodation, recreation, kitchen and dining-room facilities, deten- tion rooms for refractory children, admin- istration and housing requirements for the staff and a hospital wing for the treatment of contagious ailments and to provide a clearing house in which to receive new in- mates and segregate them until healthy con- Both sexes had to be provided for in a building large enough to house a maximum occupancy and sufficient- ly flexible as to occupancy not to entail waste of space when the inmates were | one of the hospital wards, of 'which there are two so that both sexes can few Children's Shelter Model of Utility + Well-known who planned tix CHARLES C. features of the Shelter, Oshawa STENHOUSE architect, many modern new Children's held with the other occupants, A play- room is also provided so that the little in- mates can enjoy healthy recreation. In the main building the plan follows very simple lines which adequately provide for all the varied requirements of the Shel- ter. The main corridor extends the full len, of the central portion of the building po the two main stairways, the North stair being used by the girls and the South stair by the boys. On the top flcor are located the dormitories and the Nur- gery, with sleeping rooms for attendants and lavatories and clothing rooms. On the Main Floor are the Reception rooms, Din- ing Room and Kitchen, Detention Rooms for refractory children or minors committed to the Shelter in custody and a suite of rooms for the Matron. In the Basement are the two playrooms, and coatroom and lavatories and a large store room. Under the Kitchen is the cold cellar for food stores, connected with the kitchen by a direct stair and by a dumb- waiter, and aleo a laundry. The boiler room is also located on the floor on a lower level. The construction of the building is. al- most entirely fireproof, all floors are of ce- ment on steel joists and all partitions are either solid masonry or solid plas- ter on steel lath. Corridor floors, la- vatory floors, and the floors in the I | i CHILDRENS | C. G. Stenhouse Simcoe St. N. This ;Handsome Building THE NEW SHELTER | Was Designed By Our Own Local Architect Who has designed some of Oshawa's finest structures Phone 1496 4 OVER ROYAL. BANK The Ventilating and' Sheet The contour of the ground on | be taken care of at the same time, Af- which the building stands contributed | Metal Work on the New ter remaining here for such a length | Kitchen, Dining Room and Play rooms Interior Finish Rough and Dressed Lumber, etc. Used in the erection of the new Children's Shelter was supplied by J. R. EATON CO. Orillia, Ont. sxe rg The Plaster work on this fine new building was awarded to the well- known firm -- SUTCLIFFE & SAGE Plasterers, Contractors, vp RAC, OSHAWA This firm can always be depended upon to furnish « workmanship of the highest class > CHAS, W. SAGE HENRY SUTCLIFFE 340 Athol St. E. greatly to obtaining the requisite size without undue bulk in appearance and a glance at the accompanying floor plans will show how the requirements have been taken care of. The visitor to the Shelter would be received jn the Reception Hall from which doors lead off either into the * Main Corridor or the large Recep- tion Room, and from there into what- ever department of the building was indicated., Of more interest however would be the reception of one or more of those little unfortunates for whose protection the Society exists. These would be brought in at the back of the building at the extreme South-west corner and at once taken upstairs to of time as would be necessary to make sure that no incipient disease was pre- sent they would then be removed to the main building and placed with the other children, In the hospital wing every emer- gency is provided for, including a large Sunroom for convalesence in case of illness, a sleeping room for a nurse, if one is required in constant at- tendance, a Diet Kitchen and Laundry conveniences. In the nurse's room is a commodious "dispensary for the needed medicines and the whole is so i arranged that in the event of conta- gious or infectious illness the entire section could be cut off from the main | are all of asphalt mastic, the floors of | building so that no contact would be | all other rooms being of plain red oak, finished with Stanvar varnish in place of the usual shellac and wax finish. Apart from the floors the only wood- work in the building are the doors and windows and the interior trim. The roof is of unfading green slate and caves troughs and rain spouts are of copper. With the completion of the grounds and planting of trees and shrubbery around the building, and as the raw appearance of the new brickwork wears off, the long low lines of the structure will blend into the back- ground and gradually take on the ap- pearance it is designed to have; that of a large comfortable old mansion, The New Children's Aid Society Building Is One Of The Finest In Ontario and A Credit To Oshawa rn ---------------- sp ---------- Sn -------------- Ir -------- ri-------- Phone 96 The Gay Co, "Ltd. ~ General Contractors 94 BRUCE STREET, OSHAWA, Ont. v 3 FATE aii ia SR --------" a \¢ LOCKWOOD rr This is a Children's Shelter Building was Installed by Kk. H. PHONES 752W & 752) [| of Cia "Drive -it- Yourself Challenger Week". 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