Danville Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District
Danville Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District | |
Location | 1900 and 2000 E. Main St., Danville, Illinois |
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Coordinates | 40°7′28″N 87°35′15″W / 40.12444°N 87.58750°W |
Area | 297 acres (120 ha) |
Built | 1898 |
Architectural style | Classical Revival, Georgian Revival, Late Gothic Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 91001973[1] |
Added to NRHP | January 30, 1992 |
The Danville Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District is the historic campus of a branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Danville, Illinois. The branch, which opened in 1898, was one of eleven branches of the National Home, which formed in 1867 to treat Union soldiers disabled during the Civil War. U.S. Representative and Danville resident Joseph Gurney Cannon used his political influence to establish the Danville Branch, which brought money and jobs to the city. The campus served as both a medical facility and a planned community for the area's veterans, and it included housing, veteran-run shops, community halls, a school and library, and a chapel. Most of these buildings were designed in the Georgian Revival style; however, the library is a Classical Revival building, and the chapel has a Gothic Revival design. The campus also includes the Danville National Cemetery. The buildings remaining on the campus are presently divided between Danville's Veterans Affairs hospital and the Danville Area Community College.[2]
The campus was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 30, 1992.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Edwards, Alice; Joseph Gallagher (July 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Danville Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 25, 2014. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
External links
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- Georgian Revival architecture in Illinois
- Neoclassical architecture in Illinois
- Gothic Revival architecture in Illinois
- Buildings and structures completed in 1898
- Buildings and structures in Danville, Illinois
- Veterans Affairs medical facilities
- Old soldiers' homes in the United States
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois
- National Register of Historic Places in Vermilion County, Illinois
- 1898 establishments in Illinois
- Central Illinois Registered Historic Place stubs