41-42-43
Group 4
Built 1932
41 - Patient Wards, 42 -
Kitchen / Dinning Rooms, 43 - Patient Wards

Group Four was built on the site of the former Tuberculoses Cottages
The dormitories were on the ends and the day rooms were in the middle with the
octagon porches
Female geriatric ambulatory patients were housed in Ward 103 on third floor of
this section

These four wings were the Women's dormitories. The first two are building 41 and
the rear two 43

Small porches on the end of the dormitories

The basements of the dorms were used for recreation rooms. This room is pink for
the female patients



The middle section is the toilets and the showers are one the sides and after
that are the clothes rooms



Female semi ambulatory patients were housed on the third floor of the wing

Building 43


Building 42 was the kitchens and dinning rooms for buildings 41 and 43

These are the octagon porches that extend out from the day rooms

Building 42 Kitchen / Dinning Rooms
The center bricked in section is where the service elevator (blue doors) runs
To the left and right are the bathrooms for the dining rooms
Prepared in building's basement kitchen the food would be transported in hot
trays on carts and brought to the floors by the service elevator and then placed
in the heated steam tables. The patients then would be brought in to the dinning
rooms from the dayrooms to eat. Meals were served cafeteria style, each person
carries their tray
In the basement kitchen was the refrigeration rooms, meat and vegetable
preparation rooms, and coal storage

Building 42 receiving dock




Hallway to the dinning rooms and kitchens

This was the bathroom for building 43's first floor of the north wing dinning
room


Service elevator for transporting the laundry and food carts from the trucks to
the floors











White = Bathrooms, Yellow = Nurses Station, Red = Dormitory










Building 43 Continued Treatment




















Building 43 Patient Wards
My parents worked there from 1935 to 1973. Both were RNs.
My mother worked her way up to be the head afternoon shift nurse for female
wards. She had an office in Group IV (bldgs 41, 42, 43). Female wards were
there.
My mother told me in 1966 that lobotomies were basically a thing of the past.
She saw them in nurses' training. I don't how about later.
- Dave F

There were offices on the second floor along with an elevator, reception areas,
and bathrooms







Wheel chair and gurney ramp to the porch of the day room



Day room porch

Doorway to the day room


Ramp with the railings removed

The first two windows to the left are single rooms, the window by itself and the
one after it are for the bathrooms. The first window after the light is the
nurses station for the dormitory at the end





These wings were the Men's dormitories

The first floor was for storing linens and clothing and the 2nd and 3rd floor
were the dormitories

Linens were kept in this basement room


The middle section was the toilets with the showers on the left and right and
the clothes rooms at the ends
All of the first floor of these sections were used for the storage and clothing
and linens

















Building 42 Kitchen / Dinning Rooms for buildings 41 and 43


This entrance was to the stairwell that led to the kitchens on each floor,
center windows

The windows on the right and left and the small ones on the sides are where the
bathrooms are

Expanding out from the central kitchens were the dinning rooms to the left and
right








I had a friend that worked in this wing on the 2nd floor for about 7-8 years
during the 1980's
He worked the 2nd shift and would bring the patients to dinner from the dayroom
and then back

He liked the patients and thought they were fascinating to talk with




















Links to other sites for building 41-42-43
LI Oddities
Opacity - 1
Opacity - 2
KingsCountyAsylum
Lost In Time Bldg
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