Veterans Administration Medical Center, Building No. 1, Spring Valley Drive, Huntington, Cabell County, WV
Summary
Significance: The Veterans Administration Medical Center is significant as an example of the expansion policy of the Veterans Administration in the 1930's; as the first Veterans Hospital in West Virginia; for its association with a prominent West Virginia physician and politician, Henry D. Hatfield; as an example of a significant architectural style of the period, Georgian Colonial Revival, and as an example of the influence of Federal standardized design for projects of the period. Building No. 1 is significant as the primary central structure in the complex.
Survey number: HABS WV-245-A
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Location
West Huntington, 38.37238, -82.51808
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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