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Allen Park Veterans Administration Hospital, Building No. 42, Southfield Expressway & Outer Drive, Allen Park, Wayne County, MI

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Allen Park Veterans Administration Hospital, Building No. 42, Southfield Expressway & Outer Drive, Allen Park, Wayne County, MI

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Summary

Significance: Building 42 originally housed the switch equipment for transmitting power throughout the Allen Park Veterans Administration Hospital. It is currently empty. Despite its diminutive size, the building continues the choice of construction materials and details found throughout the campus in its brick facade, belt course, and cornice.
Survey number: HABS MI-427-P
Building/structure dates: 1949 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 2002 Subsequent Work

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Date

1933 - 1970
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
U.S. Department of Verterans Affairs
Kumar, Rebecca, transmitter
Baugnet, Andrew, photographer
Scheerer, E Madeleine, historian
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Location

Allen Park42.34707, -83.25034
Google Map of 42.3470699, -83.2503385
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Library of Congress
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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

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