- Collection:
- Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
- Title:
- U.S. Veterans Hospital No. 62, 1 Freedom Way, Augusta, Richmond County, GA
- Creator:
- Historic American Buildings Survey
- Contributor to Resource:
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Owner
- Date of Original:
- 1933/9999
- Subject:
- Augusta (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
soldiers' homes - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
- Medium:
- photographs
field notes - Type:
- Still Image
Text - Description:
- Photo(s): 31 | Data Page(s): 88 | Photo Caption Page(s): 4
Significance: A group of historic buildings associated with the U.S. Veterans Hospital No. 62 were deemed eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. ... The buildings were associated with both an important period of growth for the city and significant examples of particular periods of construction. The district was considered to possess significance at the local, state, and national levels in the areas of education, religion, health/medicine, social history, commerce, community planning, and development for its association with the military. Building Nos. 18, 19, and 20 are also significant as noted southeastern architect, G. Lloyd Preacher, who went on to design multiple structures throughout the state, designed them. The quarters buildings are significant as part of an early boom period in standardized veterans hospital construction taking place across the country to serve the nation's veterans. Building No. 7 is also considered a good example of an early 20th-century hospital ward. Locally, the proposed historic district was significant due to its tie to community education and commerce, once the site was turned into a hotel. At the national level, Lenwood Veterans Hospital, to be known later as the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, represented the emergence of a national ideology in which continued care for veterans in the U.S. took on a higher priority.
Survey number: HABS GA-2424
Building/structure dates: 1913 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1925 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1975 Subsequent Work - Local Identifier:
- HABS GA-2424
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/ga1054/
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
- Original Collection:
- Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
- Holding Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
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