Medical Buildings of the
Great American Universities -
During the year 1909 Edwin E. Slosson of the New
York Independent visited fifteen of the leading universities of the country and
embodied the results of his investigation of these institutions in a series of
fifteen articles in that publication. The articles were afterward reprinted in
book form and issued by McMillan in 1910.
Cass
Gilbert Plans for Campus Development
Greater University of
In the spring of 1908 the Regents,
desiring to obtain a. general plan for the development of the University
grounds and buildings, instituted a competition in order to select an architect
to prepare a plan for such development. A prize of $1,000 was offered to
the architect who would submit three plans, one showing a general plan of
grounds and buildings, the second a section taken in any direction, at the
option of the competitor, and the third a bird's eye perspective. Plans were
submitted by some of the leading architects of the country and a commission
appointed by the Regents awarded the prize to Cass Gilbert. The original plans,
of course, while comprehensive were only very general and the Regents
entered into negotiations with Mr. Gilbert to secure definite and workable
plans for carrying out his ideas for campus development. Mr. Gilbert
finally consented to do the work for $10,000. The Regents contributed $4,500 of
this amount and Messrs. L. S. Gillette and F. W. Clifford contributed $5500 the
balance needed. Later the Regents voted to refund this Amount to Messrs. Gillette
and Clifford.' Detailed plans and specifications were approved and adopted in a
general way by the legislature of 1909. The location of the buildings and all
improvements since made on the campus has been in general compliance with the
plans adopted. Reproductions of these plans will be found in this issue of the
Weekly. For a full statement of details see Western Architect published
early in 1909 and the supplement to the Regents' annual report of 1908.
The Cass Gilbert plans are kept in the
Anderson History Library on the west bank.
The
Following the death of Drs Charles and William Mayo in 1939, Dean Diehl
proposed that a memorial be created on the campus of the medical school to
which the brothers had given millions of dollars and years of unselfish
service, Dr. Will as Regent and Dr. Charley as Professor of surgery. It would
be superfluous to place it in
Diehl
Hall
Dean Diehl spearheaded construction of
the medical library. After his retirement in1958 it was decided to name the
future library, Diehl hall. The construction was to include underground
surgical research laboratories. Drs Wangensteen,
Baker, Hastings and many others struggled to raise private money to match
federal funds and complete the building. The 5th floor houses the Wangensteen history of medicine library and the 6th floor
contains research laboratories for neurology, psychiatry and pediatrics.
Funds for the erection of Elliot
hospital were provided by the will of Mrs. Adolphus
F. Elliot, who desired the net proceeds of the sale of certain property to be
used to erect a memorial to her husband. The trustee, Mr. Walter; J. Trask, asked that the money $113,000, which with interest
amounted to $120,000, be used to erect a hospital; this was supplemented by a
legislative appropriation of $40,000. The building was completed August 1911.
It is a four story brick and stone structure and is fire proof. It contains 120
beds as follows: 60 medicine, surgery, 20 obstetrics. At the present time only internal
medical, surgical and obstetrical cases are admitted.
Millard
Hall
Lab of
Medical Sciences
Minnesota
Medical Department
Pillsbury
Memorial Gateway
