Virginia Medical Center, Aspinwall Division, Laundry Building, 5103 Delafield Avenue, Aspinwall, Allegheny County, PA
Summary
Significance: The Laundry Building is associated with the continued expansion of the veterans' hospital facility at Aspinwall during the 1920s and 1930s. Constructed in 1936, the building served as the facility's laundry until sometime after 1955 at which time it became a research and utility facility. The building is representative of the utilitarian service buildings constructed at Aspinwall.
Survey number: HABS PA-5438-I
Building/structure dates: 1936 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1951 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1936 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Herr, John, photographer
Ceponis, Glenn, historian
O'Bannon, Patrick, historian
Location
Aspinwall, 40.49039, -79.89717
Source
Library of Congress
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