Tenants should start moving into the Eastman Gardens senior living community next month. The landmark building on East Main Street was once the Eastman Dental Dispensary.
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The children’s waiting area in the former Eastman Dental Dispensary is being remade into a community room for residents of the Eastman Gardens senior living community, the dispensary’s new name. -
Lex Blaakman will replicate the nursery rhyme-themed wood carvings that used to be on the walls. -
Another view of the children’s waiting area, which is just inside the building’s Main Street entrance. -
One of the many art-tile mosaics that are outside the front of the building. -
Built by George Eastman, the Dental Dispensary building has been vacant since 1977. -
The kitchen area in one of the building’s apartments. -
The building should get its certificate of occupancy on July 8, say representatives of Home Leasing. -
A mosaic runs through the center of the walls in this former surgical recovery room. -
Period-appropriate lighting fixtures are part of the project. -
Another kitchen area in one of the building’s 52 apartments. -
Many of the units have large windows that let in lots of light. -
The inside of an apartment. -
An outdoor gathering area with picnic tables and grills will be behind the building. -
Another look inside one of Eastman Gardens’ apartments.
