and here is a picture of where we were in relation to the rest of the building.
and here is what the inside of that building looks like. Right underneath us is the 20 foot marble Jesus, that was a gift back in the 1800s or something. the Jesus is directly below where we were.
The trip up to the top of the Dome was literally a journey back in time. the Dome is on the original hospital (now referred to as the billings building, billings was the architect who designed it) which was built in the 1800s. We went up to the top floor(5th) then up to the attic, through a room that is the front room of the attic, if you look at the picture of the outside of the hospital, towards the top near the dome, it is the only perfectly square window. when they stopped using that room for patients, they made at a physicians recreational room, and in the room was a "wall ball" (court, i guess you could call it, but it was by no means, what a wall ball court looks like today) and you could see the wall with the marks from where the wall balls hit it, really cool. from there we climbed a fire ladder( and iron ladder that just goes straight up) through a small passageway, then we got to the actual Dome, on the inside wall is a set of very narrow, very steep stairs that trace up the dome, then there is an old wooden platform (that of course, has been reinforced over the years) that has steep stairs going straight up, at the platform was a little place to stop and sign your name on the inside of the Dome, there were signatures from the 60s! Then we open a hatch, and go out on to the 360 degree balcony. Talk about a view. it was so cool to be up there, i mean, WHO gets to do that?? and the city ACTUALLY looked nice from up there, too bad you couldn't just go thru the city from up there, i might actually like the city in that case. ha! At any rate, I really love my new position so far. It’s pretty intense, but i find i work better when more is happening.
and here is what the inside of that building looks like. Right underneath us is the 20 foot marble Jesus, that was a gift back in the 1800s or something. the Jesus is directly below where we were.
The trip up to the top of the Dome was literally a journey back in time. the Dome is on the original hospital (now referred to as the billings building, billings was the architect who designed it) which was built in the 1800s. We went up to the top floor(5th) then up to the attic, through a room that is the front room of the attic, if you look at the picture of the outside of the hospital, towards the top near the dome, it is the only perfectly square window. when they stopped using that room for patients, they made at a physicians recreational room, and in the room was a "wall ball" (court, i guess you could call it, but it was by no means, what a wall ball court looks like today) and you could see the wall with the marks from where the wall balls hit it, really cool. from there we climbed a fire ladder( and iron ladder that just goes straight up) through a small passageway, then we got to the actual Dome, on the inside wall is a set of very narrow, very steep stairs that trace up the dome, then there is an old wooden platform (that of course, has been reinforced over the years) that has steep stairs going straight up, at the platform was a little place to stop and sign your name on the inside of the Dome, there were signatures from the 60s! Then we open a hatch, and go out on to the 360 degree balcony. Talk about a view. it was so cool to be up there, i mean, WHO gets to do that?? and the city ACTUALLY looked nice from up there, too bad you couldn't just go thru the city from up there, i might actually like the city in that case. ha! At any rate, I really love my new position so far. It’s pretty intense, but i find i work better when more is happening.
