Indianapolis Veterans Administration Hospital

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Indianapolis Veterans Administration Hospital
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Indianapolis Veterans Administration Hospital, April 2012
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Location2601 Cold Spring Rd., Indianapolis, Indiana
Coordinates 39°48′10″N86°12′06″W / 39.80278°N 86.20167°W / 39.80278; -86.20167 Coordinates: 39°48′10″N86°12′06″W / 39.80278°N 86.20167°W / 39.80278; -86.20167
Area30 acres (12 ha)
Built1930 (1930)-1951
Built byConstruction Division, Veterans Bureau; Construction Division, Veterans Administration
ArchitectTalbert, Randolph
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Classical Revival
MPS United States Second Generation Veterans Hospitals MPS
NRHP reference No. 12000029 [1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 21, 2012

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. [2] :3

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 University of Indiana 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. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 2/21/12 through 2/24/12. National Park Service. 2012-03-02.
  2. "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2016-08-01.Note: This includes Trent Spurlock (November 2011). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Indianapolis Veterans Administration Hospital" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-08-01. and Accompanying photographs