Indianapolis Veterans Administration Hospital
National Register of Historic Places

Indianapolis Veterans Administration Hospital

Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
Listed
February 21, 2012
Type
District
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
12000029

About this property

Indianapolis Veterans Administration Hospital, also known as Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital is a historic hospital complex and national historic district located at Indianapolis, Indiana. The district resources were developed between 1930 and 1951 by the Veterans Administration, and encompasses 15 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, 2 contributing structures and 5 contributing objects on the hospital campus. The main complex is connected by an enclosed corridor and consists of the main hospital building (1931), kitchen/mess hall/boiler house/attendants' quarters, general medical building (1939), and recreation building (1941). The buildings reflect the Colonial Revival and Classical Revival styles of architecture. The name of doctor Larue D. Carter had previously been attached to the state's first intensive-treatment psychiatric hospital, a facility within a large assembly of buildings (which then also included both the Indiana University Indianapolis campus and the V.A. Hospital), in recognition of his leadership role in the state's Mental Health Association, at a time when the Civil War-era Central State Hospital psychiatric facility, in the same city, was being pilloried as an obsolete relic reflecting inhumane approaches to mental illness. This V.A. facility was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

Location

2601 Cold Springs Rd.
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
39.80059, -86.20136

Categories

POLITICS/GOVERNMENTHEALTH/MEDICINEARCHITECTURE
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Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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When was Indianapolis Veterans Administration Hospital listed on the National Register?

Indianapolis Veterans Administration Hospital was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 21, 2012.

What type of historic resource is Indianapolis Veterans Administration Hospital?

Indianapolis Veterans Administration Hospital is classified as a district in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Indianapolis Veterans Administration Hospital?

The period of significance for Indianapolis Veterans Administration Hospital is recorded as the industrial era, specifically around 1930.

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