1858 Infirmary, Adapted
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Architect William Pratt, UVa Grounds Superintendant -
1906 Photograph [showing gallery]: Italianate style considered masculine -
1858 Gardiner Chilson Furnace, exposed in warming chamber -
Fully Prepared for Move -
Stair Hall as Paint Removed -
Stair Hall, Original Colors -
Office Fireplace [added 1890, when Chilson furnace flue collapsed] -
Chilson Furnace service side: complex ductwork vented and heated -
Building first to depart from Jeffersonian grid, to better warm patients -
Original Colors, Rebuilt Steel-reinforced Gallieries -
North Front Showing Airlock [Oldest such feature at UVa] -
Pratt used Florence Nightingale's 1854 "Treatise on Nursing" as Guide -
Basement Door [Miasma Disease Theory demanded fresh air] -
North Front, Four-sash Windows [Two pocketed louvered sash for venting] -
Former Patient Room [Theraputic high ceiling] -
North Front, Building Wrapped for Move
