Trudeau Post Office, left; Service Building, behind the Post Office; Administration Building, additions — center and main buiding — right
Trudeau Sanatorium Historic District, Reference Number 32
Year built: 1912
Architect: J. Lawrence Aspinwall
Other names: American Management Association's Maintenance Service Building
Description: The Service Building is a long and narrow building, three stories tall under a gable roof. The building is located behind the Administration Building and connected to it by a second floor bridge across the alley below. The foundation and first story are of cobblestone, laid in rough courses, with two cobblestone buttresses. The second and third floors are sided in wood shingles and the roof is sheathed in asphalt shingles. Windows feature double-hung six-over-six sash. The front gable end features a. beam for hauling freight up to the top. The service building also features porches; they are on the third floor, where employee accommodations were probably located, and set within the envelope of the building. Porch railings are flat cut-out boards in the Swiss style.
History: "The administration department had long had to struggle with insufficient accommodations that had become outgrown, and in 1912 this need was met, at a cost of twenty thousand dollars, by the erection of a service building which had been planned by Mr. Aspinwall to meet the growing requirements of the institution. This most useful and practical building, containing several cold-storage rooms, which can be kept at any desired temperature, an artificial-ice plant, dining-rooms and accommodations for the employees, has done much to perfect and facilitate the work of the service department." 1
Source:
- Mary B. Hotaling, Draft nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, January 1993.
- National Register of Historic Places Registration Form
See also: Trudeau Sanatorium Historic District
Comments
Footnotes
1. E. L. Trudeau, Autobiography, 301.
