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Summary
See HABS IL-1155 for overview history of complex & list of original architectural drawings. See photographs in this record for photocopies of drawings.
Significance: A typical example of Veterans Administration neuro-psychiatric hospital construction using the "Architectural Set" of drawings for a campus complex setting, the Marion, Illinois VA Medical Center is significant because of its rare use of Egyptian Revival architectural decoration.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-193
Survey number: HABS IL-1155-C
Building/structure dates: 1940 Initial Construction
Tags
brick buildings
health care
nurses residences
egyptian revival architectural elements
polychromy
marion mobile home village
veterans
administration
medical
veterans administration medical center
old state route
marion
williamson
williamson county
illinois
muesig dennett
bruce a harms
historic american buildings survey
robert a ryan
us department of veterans affairs
photo
ultra high resolution
high resolution
architectural diagrams
library of congress
architectural plan
Date
1940 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Dennett, Muesig, Ryan & Associates, Ltd., photographer
Ryan, Robert A, photographer
Harms, Bruce A, photographer
Dennett, Muesig, Ryan & Associates, Ltd., historian
Ryan, Robert A, historian
Location
Marion Mobile Home Village
,
37.72968, -88.91259
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html