New Chemistry-Pharmacy Building at Montana State Universitv J
JOSEPH W. HOWARD, Montana State University, Missoula, Mont.
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HE new $300,000 Chemistry-Pharmacy Building at
the dean of the School of Pharmacy, and a research laboratory, as well as a freight receiving room and office for the storeroom keeper. The second floor is occupied by the School of Pharmacy with two offices, a storeroom, a balance room, and separate laboratories for galenical pharmacy, dispensing, drug analysis, advanced analysis, and research and pharmacognosy, and a special dispensatory for the University Health Service. The third floor contains the laboratories for physical chemistry, quantitative analysis, organic chemistry, physiological chemistry, a storeroom, three offices, two research laboratories, a combustion-Kjeldahl room, dark room, constanttemperature room, balance room, and two rest rooms. The desks in the organic and physiological laboratories are equipped with cold water, steam, compressed air, gas, and electricity, while those in quantitative analysis have hot water in place of steam. All these laboratories have adequate hoods and steam baths.
Montana State University was completed during the autumn quarter of 1939. The building was financed with federal aid as a PWA project. The architects were Hugenin and DeKay of Helena, Mont. It is constructed of reinforced concrete with a brick surface and is earthquakeproof. The full basement contains a large general storeroom which supplies all the science departments of the university. I n addition, there are separate storerooms for the Department of Chemistry and School of Pharmacy, rest rooms, and a switchboard and storage battery room. Extending from the basement, with its ceiling outside of the building, is a special room for chemicals which are considered fire hazards. The first floor contains a large lecture and preparation room, four classrooms of varying capacities, a combined chemistry-pharmacy library, a model drugstore, the office of
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The fourth floor is given over to one large laboratory for general chemistry and qualitative analysis, with its storeroom, professors’ office, and office for student assistants. The laboratory itself is sky-lighted and the attic space thus left back of its wall3 is ubed for the fume duct3 and suction fans which operate the hoods throughout the building, The desks are equipped nith gas, hot and cold miter, and individual
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hoods. At each end of the laboratory there is a bank of fourteen individual hoods for use with hydrogen sulfide. Each bank of hoods is supplied from a tank of hydrogen sulfide and has its separate suction fan. Other features of the building are adequate outlets for direct anti alternating current, a freight elevator which connects all the storerooms, and air-conditioning throughout.
LEFT. PHARMACOGNOSY LABORATORY. LEFT CEXTER. DISPENSING L IBoRAToRY. LOWERLEFT. ORG.4XIC CHEMISTRY LABORATORY. UPPER RIGHT. GESERALCHEMISTRY LABORATORY. RIGHTCEXTER. DRUGANALYSISLABORATORY. LOWER RIGHT. CHEMISTRY LECTURE ROOM UPPER
