Veterans Administration Medical Center, Building No. 8, Old State Route 13 West, Marion, Williamson County, IL
Summary
See HABS IL-1155 for overview history of complex & list of original architectural drawings. See photographs in this record for photocopies of drawings.
Significance: A typical example of Veterans Administration neuro-psychiatric hospital construction using the "Architectural Set" of drawings for a campus complex setting, the Marion, Illinois VA Medical Center is significant because of its rare use of Egyptian Revival architectural decoration.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-193
Survey number: HABS IL-1155-C
Building/structure dates: 1940 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1940 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Dennett, Muesig, Ryan & Associates, Ltd., photographer
Ryan, Robert A, photographer
Harms, Bruce A, photographer
Dennett, Muesig, Ryan & Associates, Ltd., historian
Ryan, Robert A, historian
Location
Marion Mobile Home Village, 37.72968, -88.91259
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