Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District
National Register of Historic Places

Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District

Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York
Listed
March 26, 2012
Type
District
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
12000161

About this property

Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District is a historic hospital and national historic district located at Canandaigua in Ontario County, New York. The district includes 29 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and four contributing structures. They were built or utilized during the period 1931 to 1950. The Veterans Administration opened the facility in 1933, as a veteran's neuropsychiatric hospital. The original hospital buildings built in 1932, include the main building, kitchen / dining hall, acute building, continued treatment building, recreation building, laundry, warehouse, boiler plant, attendant's quarters, sewage pump house, garage, and gatehouse. The buildings are constructed of brick and feature crenellation, gabled parapets, half-timbering, steeply gabled roofs, and Tudor arches reflective of the Tudor Revival and Jacobethan Revival styles. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

Location

400 Fort Hill Ave.
Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York
42.90278, -77.27039

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 Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District listed on the National Register?

Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 26, 2012.

What type of historic resource is Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District?

Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District is classified as a district in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District is recorded as the industrial era, specifically around 1931.

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