STANFORD MEDICAL CENTER
Palo Alto-—Stanford Hospitals

A new era in medicine for residents of the San Francisco
Peninsula will begin with the starting of construction on the com-
bined Palo Alto~Stanford Hospital in May 1957. A detailed scale
model is shown below.

The new Medical Center, one of the largest medical con-
struction programs undertaken in the United States, will have an
initial cost of $20,000,000. Included in the program, aside from
the hospital, is a Rehabilitation Center and several Medical
School Buildings, Completion should be in mid-year 1959,

Governor's.
Square

 

Buildings shown in the scale model are (1) Palo Alto Nursing Pavilion;
(2) Hospital "Core" - surgeries, delivery suite, clinical laboratories,
pediatric beds, general services, administration; (3) Stanford Nursing
Pavilion; (4) Stanford Clinic (outpatients), clinical departments'
offices and laboratories; (5) Teaching laboratories, classrooms, basic
science laboratories; (6) Library, basic science laboratories;

(7) Stanford Rehabilitation Center, basic science laboratories.
Governor's Square, with access to Willow Road, is indicated at Lower
right.

Architect—Edward D. Stone
Landscape Architect—Thomas D. Church and Associates
Model Construction—Workshop Models, Berkeley