Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital
The focal point of the complex is its Main Building, a three-story brick Classical Revival building that was built in 1928, and is still used as a medical care facility. South of this is the Administration building, also built in 1928. West of that is the former Kitchen and Dining Hall of 1928, which now houses offices and storage space. To its west is the 1929 Acute Care Building, now known as the Nursing Home Care Unit. Other buildings of the complex are located primarily north and south of this grouping, and are smaller in scale.
In 2012, 177 acres of the remaining campus were listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. The district includes the main hospital buildings, as well as residential housing, utility and maintenance buildings, most of which were built no later than 1947, and some of which date to 1928, the earliest period of the facility's construction. It is an excellent example of an intact Period 2 neuropsychiatric VA hospital.
See also
- Northampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- List of Veterans Affairs medical facilities
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Bedford Veterans Administration Hospital District". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved January 28, 2014.
External links
- Media related to Bedford VA Medical Center at Wikimedia Commons
- Official VA website