- Collection:
- Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
- Title:
- U.S. Veterans Hospital No. 62, Single Family Quarters, 1 Freedom Way, Augusta, Richmond County, GA
- Creator:
- Historic American Buildings Survey
- Contributor to Resource:
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs,
Jones Construction Company, Contractor - Date of Original:
- 1933/9999
- Subject:
- Augusta (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Colonial Revival architectural elements
nurses' residences - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
- Medium:
- photographs
field notes - Type:
- Still Image
Text - Description:
- Photo(s): 24 | Data Page(s): 19 | Photo Caption Page(s): 4
Significance: This is part of a group of residential and garage buildings built in the 1920s and 1930s to create the quarters area of the Lenwood Veterans Hospital. Within this area are five residential, Colonial Revival buildings, four are duplexes while this is a single family home, built in 1927 to house the director of the hospital. This buildings are arranged around a courtyard aligned with the axis of the first hospital buildings to the west. They are significant for their use as on-site housing for senior medical staff, following a former policy of the Department of Veterans Affairs. They are also significant as part of an early boom period in standardized veteran hospital construction
Survey number: HABS GA-2424-A
Building/structure dates: 1927 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 2009 Demolished - Local Identifier:
- HABS GA-2424-A
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/ga1055/
- 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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