Minnesota Veterans Home Complex, Domiciliary No. 9, 5101 Minnehaha Avenue, South, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN

Significance: The Domiciliary Building No. 9 originally constructed as the Veterans' Homes main hospital facility in 1936, is one of 17 remaining structures built on a plot of land between the Mississippi River and Minnehaha Creek that the State of Mississippi acquired in 1887. The peninsula, originally named "Godfrey's Point," was donated to the State of Minnesota by the City of Minneapolis to use as its primary care facility for Veterans and their families beginning in 1888. The Domiciliary Building No. 9, built by the WPA in 1936, retains its historical significance, and coexists, with its ZigZage Moderne/Art Deco style with the other predominantly Richardsonian Romanesque buildings from the late 19th century, and, as well, it significant in its own right in its relations to the site and surroundings of the Minnesota Veterans' Home Complex.
Survey number: HABS MN-74-G
Building/structure dates: 1936 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1973 Subsequent Work