Mountain Home Veterans Administration Medical Center, Boiler Plant & Smokestack, Johnson City, Washington County, TN
Summary
For additional documentation see HABS TN-254.
Significance: Part of medical center developed and constructed as a complete, architecturally consistent complex. Home branches of the Veterans Administration were perhaps the first non-religious planned communities in the nation; they were also the earliest integrated federal facilities in the history of the country.
Survey number: HAER TN-1-A
Building/structure dates: 1908 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Location
johnson city, 36.31344, -82.35347
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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