Two-story open-air ward building at the New Haven County State Sanatorium in Meriden, credited to Foote & Townsend. Plan I belongs to Meriden. Plan II is explicitly a comparison for Huntington, Connecticut; it must not be labeled as Undercliff. Photograph date unknown; published in 1914.
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Source: Thomas Spees Carrington; National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis Hospital and Sanatorium Construction, third edition (1914), p. 150; University of California Libraries / Internet Archive. Public domain in the United States.
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Section \ I j^ fy-^ r-M 1 PLAN I 0¥1 joJ IMHvi] jij±. M n§ n^ ixj iXj 'n ^'A J— PLAN II No. 93. -New Haven County State Sanatorium, Meriden, Conn. I'otin; & Townskm), Akciiitix i>. Lka\-to. Front Elevation and Floor Plan. Capacity, 40 Patiknts. Kstimatkd Cost. S5.000. Note: Plan II, Dksioned by the Same Architects, Shows the Arrangement of a Btildinc. at Huntington, Conn. New Haven County State Sanatorium, Meriden, Conn., Li: ax-to (Illustraiion 9,^). 'I'his is a friimc Ican-lo, two stories hi<i;h, covered externally and roofed with shingles. Both floors are arranged alike after jjlan I, shown in the illustration. It may be divided for description into a ci'ntral block. 17 feet wiiK' hy 42 fi'ct det'p, and two wings 40 feet wide by 16 feet det-p. In the central section is a silling room i() fei'l wide by :o feet deep and a
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Silent Grounds Collective, Undercliff Sanatorium, SGC-UC-015, UC-002, “Meriden lean-to ward building.” Source: Thomas Spees Carrington; National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis Hospital and Sanatorium Construction, third edition (1914), p. 150; University of California Libraries / Internet Archive. Public domain in the United States.. https://archive.org/details/tuberculosishosp00carrrich/page/n153/mode/1up. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.