Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District
Canandaigua Veterans Hospital, October 2006
Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District is located in New York
Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District
Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District is located in the United States
Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District
Location400 Fort Hill Avenue, Canandaigua, New York
Coordinates42°54′04″N 77°16′11″W / 42.90111°N 77.26972°W / 42.90111; -77.26972
Area123 acres (50 ha)
Built1931-1950
Architectural styleTudor Revival, Jacobethan Revival
MPSUnited States Second Generation Veterans Hospitals Multiple Property Submission
NRHP reference No.12000161 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 27, 2012

Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District is a historic hospital and national historic district located at Canandaigua in Ontario County, New York. The district includes 29 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 4 contributing structures. They were built or utilized during the period 1931 to 1950. The Veterans Administration opened the facility in 1933, as a veteran's neuropsychiatric hospital. The original hospital buildings built in 1932, include the main building, kitchen / dining hall, acute building, continued treatment building, recreation building, laundry, warehouse, boiler plant, attendant's quarters, sewage pump house, garage, and gatehouse. The buildings are constructed of brick and feature crenellation, gabled parapets, half-timbering, steeply gabled roofs, and Tudor arches reflective of the Tudor Revival and Jacobethan Revival styles.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.[1]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 3/26/12 through 3/30/12. National Park Service. April 6, 2012.
  2. ^ Trent Spurlock; Robert C. Whetsell; Anne Marie P. Doyon; Jennifer Stewart; Holly Higgins (March 2012). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved December 24, 2012. See also: "Accompanying 17 photos".
[edit]


This article about a historic property or district in Ontario County, New York, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canandaigua_Veterans_Hospital_Historic_District&oldid=1168953414"