[3] The school was the recipient of a gift of a half million dollars for the purpose of building a nurses' home as a memorial to the services of Farrand Training School Nurses who served during World War I. James Couzens was the donor.

[3] The opening of the Home took place on the occasion of the graduating exercises, May 10, 1922,[5] National Hospital Day.

[5] The building is located on a large plot of ground south of the hospital, with which it is connected by a tunnel.

[5] The sunken gardens are of formal design to correspond with the architecture of the building and are enclosed in evergreens which are to be used as a ground cover in the form of a hedge.

Dressing rooms for men and women and storage quarters for chairs and banquet tables are provided.

Three hundred people can be seated in the auditorium and later easily served refreshments, because there is a fully equipped kitchen.

[5] All rugs are of soft greys or taupes and of mixed design, not easily showing dust.

The halls are covered with waxed battle ship lineoleum and the floors are painted nearly the same color.

The Home is characterized in its furnishings by stability and simplicity added to which is the artistic selection in color and design.

[5] Across the rear of every floor above the first are 11 double rooms and each has a stationary washstand, two closets, two bureaus, two chairs and large rugs.

In the southwest and northeast corners of the building are suites of two rooms and a bath for two supervisors shut off from the main hallway by an entrance.

Every room has a buzzer in the built-in wardrobe closet which is manipulated from the telephone desk.

A device for holding towels and wash cloth, designed by McLaughlin, as part of the wardrobe closets is included in bedrooms.

It is a workroom and has closets and cabinets which contain the necessary articles for the successful demonstration of practical nursing procedure.

it also contains a stationary washstand with hot and cold water, an ample blackboard and student chairs with wide arms for convenience in writing class and lecture notes.

A laboratory in which there is arrangement for 14 Bunsen burners, any number of microscope lams an dsinks, large and small, furnishes the needed arrangement for teaching solutions in materia medica, microscopic work in bacteriology and test tube demonstrations in the examination of urine.

[3] The library off the living room was designed to hold 1,000 volumes, but the architect added paneling with secret shelves for future use.