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New Residences 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
. AND REMINDER 
Vol. XV 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, June 8, 1917 
No. 23 
and Improvements Along North Shore 
(Reprinted from Boston Transcript of May 19, 1917) 
By CHARLES E, ALEXANDER 
Ipswicit Has Fins New MEMORIAL, 
peswicH townspeople are congratulating themselves on 
their new Benjamin Stickney Cable Memorial Hospital, 
a gift to the town Pie LC rane: dient Chicago, 
whose place of summer residence is in Ipswich. The 
building, which is nearly completed, is at the corner of 
County road and Essex street and is a memorial to Mr. 
Crane's friend, Benjamin Stickney Cable, who while his 
guest at Ipswich two years ago was the victim of an 
automobile accident which proved fatal. 
The hospital is of brick construction, with marble 
trimmings, the bricks laid Flemish bond in white mortar 
and it is of Georgian style of architecture, with a central 
part and two projecting wings. The main portico shows 
a pediment treatment with double columns and. the roof 
above is broken by three dormers and is surmounted by a 
cupola, which is characteristically Colonial. The two 
wings have pitched roofs, with dormers to relieve the 
long lines. The building is placed about 450 feet in from 
the main highway, County road, in a lot of about ten 
acres of land. It may be reached by a short walk from 
the trolley cars running through Essex street. 
The first floor comprises a memorial entrance hall 
finished in Colonial style with high panelled dado and this 
place is to contain a memorial bronze tablet by Bela 
Pratt, the Boston sculptor, of a portrait bust in bas relief 
of Mr. Cable, in whose honor the hospital has been given 
and named. The tablet shows a circle of laurel leaves 
surrounding the portrait and the corners show conven- 
tionalized rosettes. This tablet represents probably the 
last work of the sculptor, Mr. Pratt, whose death was 
announced recently. It bears this inscription : 
BENJAMIN STICKNEY 
CABLE 
1872-1915 
From the entrance hall there is a small waiting-room 
at the left and on the right is an office. Ascending a few 
steps and crossing the main corridor, one reaches the 
patients’ day, or reception, room which opens upon an air- 
ing balcony toward the south, leading to terraces from 
which expansive views may be had. The buildnig is H- 
shaped, as to its general floor plan. At the western end is 
the operating department and the sterilizing, etherizing, 
and surgeons’ rooms. The operating room is lined with 
white Grueby tiles to a height of five feet and the floor is 
of Grueby gray tiles. © On the south side is a men’s ward 
of six beds. The east wing contains the women’s and 
maternity wards, children’s ward, a nursery for babies and 
general service rooms. Also toward the southern ex- 
posure are four private rooms for patients, with service 
and other rooms. 
In the basement is the service 
dining-room, storerooms and refrigerators, as well as the 
mechanical equipment, boiler room, coal bins, etc. The 
laundry is in the basement, also the pharmacy, laboratory 
and X-ray department. All these departments are 
thoroughly modern and scientific in plan and equipment. 
The second story contains an isolation ward of two 
kitchen, also the nurses’ 
rooms, as well as six rooms for nurses’ occupancy, super- 
intendent’s room, four rooms for maids employed at the 
hospital and an emergency ward of two beds. An auto- 
matic elevator connects the.two floors, All the floors are 
to be covered with gray variegated linoleum with a ter- 
razzo base. Airing balconies are reached from all wards. 
The building is fireproof in construction and is in every 
way splendidly planned for its purpose. It will accom- 
modate about twenty patients on the first floor and is 
capable of extension at any time. It is practically finished 
and the furniture to be installed is now being purchased. 
The building was planned by a Boston architect, Ed- 
ward F. Stevens, who has planned probably a hundred 
hospitals in many parts of the United States. He has 
seven or eight such buildings, of different plan and size, 
at present under construction in various cities and towns. 
Marr Bros. & Stewart of Boston were the builders. Her- 
bert W. Mason, a summer resident of Ipswich, and presi- 
dent of the hospital board, has taken a deep personal in- 
terest in the construction of the place and has watched its 
progress from the start and in many ways has lent his aid 
toward its completion. It will be dedicated probably 
early in July. 
The surrounding grounds and terraces have been 
developed by Arthur A. Shurtleff, the Boston landscape 
architect. . The broad grass terrace for use of patients is 
at the South and gets a sunny exposure. It is about 175 
by 80 feet in dimensions and is enclosed by a brick wall. 
As the hospital is on the crest of! a hill, the widespread 
views from the terrace are most interesting and varied 
driveways have been made, shrubbery and trees have 
been set out, other trees are replanted to more advantage 
and there will be attractive flower beds and lawns. 
7 
House Simple and Picuresque 
Since last season there has been completed at Ip- 
swich a cottage of attractive type for Dr. J. Dellinger 
Barney, a Boston physician who in previous years has 
been a summer resident of Ipswich, where he has leased 
a cottage. His new place is low and picturesque in char- 
acter and is especially well fitted to its site and surround- 
ings. It is from plans by Stickney & Austin, Boston arch- 
‘tects. The cottage is of two stories and its roof is of the 
gambrel type, the front broken by several broad dormer 
windows. An old-fashioned trellis’ porch is quaint, at the 
entrance, and the windows are in keeping with the pic- 
turesque appearance of the house. It is planned in a 
simple way for entire comfort. A spacious living-room, 
dining-room and open porch mark the lower story, in ad- 
dition to the usual ‘service rooms in an L,; upstairs are 
several chambers, baths and maids’ rooms. The house 
makes a notable addition to the Ipswich colony. 
Frew CHANGES AT MAGNOLIA. 
NLIKE some previous years, Magnolia has not under- 
gone since last season changes of special importance, 
and in the way of new building little has been done. For 
J. Harrington Walker of Detroit, Mich., who was one of 
the most picturesque situated houses on the Shore road 
