Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District Explained

Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District
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Location:400 Fort Hill Avenue, Canandaigua, New York
Coordinates:42.9011°N -77.2697°W
Built:1931-1950
Architecture:Tudor Revival, Jacobethan Revival
Added:March 27, 2012
Mpsub:United States Second Generation Veterans Hospitals Multiple Property Submission
Refnum:12000161[1]

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Listings. 2012-04-06. Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 3/26/12 through 3/30/12. National Park Service.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District . March 2012. 2012-12-24 . Trent Spurlock . Robert C. Whetsell . Anne Marie P. Doyon . Jennifer Stewart . Holly Higgins . New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. See also: Web site: Accompanying 17 photos.