SOW Attachment 12 Historic Registry paper work Coatesville VAMC.pdf

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United States Department of the Interior National Park Service

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National Register of Historic Places Registration Form

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This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional certification comments, entries, and narrative items on continuation sheets if needed (NPS Form 1 0-900a).

1. Name of Property historic name Coatesville Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District other names/site number Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center (CVAMC) INA

2. Location street & number 1400 Blackhorse Hill Road NA not for publication city or town Cain Township NA vicinity state Pennsylvania code PA county Chester code 029 zip code 19320-2096

3. State/Federal Agency Certification

As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this ...x._ nomination_ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60.

In my opinion, the property __L meets __ does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant at the following level(s) of significance:

national X statewide local

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al Park Service Certification rtify that this property is:

_ entered in the National Register _ determined eligible for the National Register

_ determined not eligible for the National Register _ removed from the National Register

Date of Action

National Park Service I National Register of Historic Places Registration Form

NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018

Coatesville Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District Name of Property

5. Classification

Ownership of Property (Check as many boxes as apply.)

private public - Local public - State public - Federal

Category of Property (Check only one box.)

building(s) district site structure object

Name of related multiple property listing (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing)

United States Second Generation Veterans Hospitals

6. Function or Use

Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions.)

Health Care/Hospital

7. Description

Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions.)

Late 191 h and 201 h Century R.evivals:

Colonial Revival I Classical Revival

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Chester County, Pennsylvania County and State

Number of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.)

Contributing Noncontributing 37 19 buildings 2 0 sites 4 9 structure 1 1 objects

44 29 Total

Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register

NA

Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions.)

Health Care/Hospital

Materials (Enter categories from instructions.)

foundation: Concrete walls: Brick roof: Asphalt other: Terra Cotta

NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018

Coatesville Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District Name of Property

Narrative Description

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Chester County, Pennsylvania County and State

(Describe the historic and current physical appearance of the property. Explain contributing and noncontributing resources if necessary. Begin with a summary paragraph that briefly describes the general characteristics of the property, such as its location, setting, size, and significant features.)

Summary Paragraph

The Coatesville Veterans Administration 0/A) Hospital Historic District, currently known as the Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center (CVAMC}, Coatesville, Pennsylvania, is located at 1400 Blackhorse Hill Road. The hospital is situated approximately 1.5 miles northeast of downtown Coatesville, Pennsylvania, and overlooks the Lincoln Highway (Business U.S. 30), the first paved coast-to-coast highway extending across the United States. The Coatesville VA Hospital Historic District is situated on a hilltop in Cain Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.1 The polygonal tract is roughly bounded on the northeast by Route 340; to the northwest and north by New Jersey Avenue and a wooded area; on the west by a wooded residential area; on the east by a steep, wooded slope that extends to the south with a few residences; and on the south by the same steep slope that extends to the south to the Coatesville Senior High School. The campus setting of the historic district consists of mature vegetation, undulating topography, curvilinear and linear drives and sidewalks, and minimal formal landscaping confined to the areas near the roadways and buildings. The original mission of the hospital was to provide neuropsychiatric care to veterans, and the historic district preserves the general characteristics of the Period II (constructed from the late 1920s through 1950) veterans neuropsychiatric hospital property sub-typ$. Characteristics of the Period II veterans neuropsychiatric hospitals exhibited by the Coatesville VA Hospital Hjstoric District include being originally located on a large tract of land to accommodate future expansion and the farm operations utilized as vocational therapy; a main building (Resource 1) that serves as the focal point of the campu~; patient ward/treatment buildings to house patients with varying degrees of mental illness (Resources 2, 4, 6--9, 3$, 39, and 57-59); connecting corridors between the buildings housing patients and patient services; the grouping bf buildings by function into three groups, the administration/patient ward and s$rvices buildings, the residential qua~ers for staff members, and the maintenance/utility buildings. The historic district boundary is comprised of the current contiguous property boundary, which contains approximately 126 acres with seventy-three resources. Construction began in 1929 on the neuropsychiatric veterans hospital, which then opened in 1931. Buildings constructed duri11g the period of significance ( 1929--1950) exhibit elements of the Colonial Revival and Classical Revival architectural styles, while buildings constructed after the period of significance exhibit modern/utilitarian designs. The historic district is composed of a large main building, patient ward/treatment buildings, a recreation building, dining hall, residential quarters, and maintenance/utility buildings. Forty-four resources are considered contributing resources, with the majority of these resources classified as buildings. Contributing resources includ¢ those that retain integrity and wer$ utilized and/or constructed by the Coatesville VA Hospital during the historic district's period of significance. Eleven resources, or one-third of the twenty-nine noncontributing resources, are smaller buildings and structures, including maintenance, service, and utility buildings, constructed after 1950 that do not visually impact the larger contributing resources, and the relationships between the contributing resources remain intact. However, there are several major additions to the historic district constructed in the latter half of the twenti~th century, including: the physical medicine/rehabilitation service building (Resource 69, 1960), chapel (Resource 72, 1966), the air conditioning plant (Resource 17, circa 1970s-1980s), the inpatient nursing home (Resource 138, 1981) and the nutrition/food service building (Resource 139, 1989). As neuropsychiatric care trends changed, land no longer deemed necessary to meet the needs of the hospital was transferred from VA ownership, such c:ls the property currently occupied by Coatesville Senior High School.

Narra~ive Description

The Coatesville VA Hospital Histori~ District is located on a hilltop within a campus setting in Cain Town;Ship, to the northeast of downtown Ooatesville.

See Continuation Sheet, page 7.1

1 United States Department of Veterans Affairs, "Executive Order 12512 Survey, Real Property Utilization Survey, VA Medical Center, Coatesville, PA, " December 20, 2002, GSA Inventory Control Number 3600-10256 (Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Coatesville, Pennsylvania), 1, files of the Engineering Department, Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medic~! Center, Coatesville, Pennsylvania.

NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0016

Coatesville Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District Name of Property

8. Statement of Significance Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing.)

Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history.

Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past.

Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction.

Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.

Criteria Considerations (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.)

Property is:

A Owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes.

B removed from its original location.

C a birthplace or grave.

D a cemetery.

E a reconstructed building, object, or structure.

F a commemorative property.

G less than 50 years old or achieving significance within the past 50 years.

Period of Significance Uustification)

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Chester County, Pennsylvania County and State

Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions.)

Politics/Government

Health/Medicine

Architecture

Period of Significance

1929-1950

Significant Dates

NA

Significant Person (Complete only if Criterion B is marked above.)

NA

Cultural Affiliation

NA

Architect/Builder

Construction Division, Veterans Bureau

Construction Service, Veterans Administration

The period of significance begins with the construction of the facility in 1929 and extends through 1950, the termination date for the period of significance as stated in the United States Second Generation Veterans Hospital Multiple Property Documentation form. The contributing resources all date to the period of significance. These buildings relate to the historic district's identity as a Period II neuropsychiatric hospital sub-type within the Second Generation Veterans Hospitals typology. Buildings constructed after 1950 no longer relate to the design philosophies developed by the Second Generation Veterans Hospitals, Criteria Considerations (explanation, if necessary)

NA

NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018

Coatesville Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District Name of Property

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Chester County, Pennsylvania County and State

Statement of Significance Summary Paragraph (Provide a summary paragraph that includes level of significance and applicable criteria.)

The Coatesville VA Hospital Historic District is significant for its association with the federal government's commitment to the health care of World War I and World War II veterans. As defined in the United States Second Generation Veterans Hospitals Multiple Property Documentation Form, the Coatesville VA Hospital Historic District is an excellent, intact example of a Period II neuropsychiatric Second Generation Veterans Hospital. Neuropsychiatric hospitals are a sub-type of Second Generation Veterans Hospitals. Period II includes those veterans hospitals constructed from the late 1920s through 1950, the date of the last veterans hospital constructed utilizing the designs developed for the Second Generation Veterans Hospitals. The Coatesville VA Hospital Historic District exhibits characteristics commonly associated with Period II veterans neuropsychiatric hospitals, including: large campus size that originally accommodated farming operations conducted by the patients as a form of therapy; a monumental main building serving as the focal point of the historic district; H-shape buildings constructed around courtyards that were specifically designed to house neuropsychiatric patients depending upon the extent of their illness; the hierarchal use of Classical Revival and Colonial Revival architectural decorative elements on the exteriors of the buildings, creating a cohesive architectural campus setting; the use of connecting corridors between buildings containing patient wards and services; and grouping buildings into three clusters depending on their original function , such as administration/patient services, staff residences, and maintenance/utility buildings. The Coatesville VA Hospital Historic District is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under Criterion A at the state level of significance in the area of Politics and Government because of its impact on the local community and veterans throughout southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, Delaware, and northeastern Maryland. The historic district is also eligible under Criterion A at the state level of significance in the area of Health and Medicine because of the physical evidence the hospital provides concerning health care offered to veterans of the mid-Atlantic region, primarily veterans of World War I and World War II. The Coatesville VA Hospital Historic District is also eligible under Criterion C in the area of Architecture at the state level of significance because the Coatesville VA Hospital is an intact example of a Period II Second Generation Veterans Hospital incorporating elements of classical revival architectural styles that were nationally popular in the early to mid-twentieth century. The use of quoins, porticos, pediments, balustrades, pilasters with Corinthian capitals, wreaths with festoons, dentil molding, and the dominant cupola of the main building (Resource 1 , 1930) reflects the influence of the Colonial Revival and Classical Revival styles. The hospital exhibits standardized designs developed for federal veterans hospitals constructed from the late 1920s through 1950.

Construction began on the Coatesville VA Hospital in July 1929. Additional buildings and structures continued to be constructed within the historic district throughout the twentieth century. It was designated a neuropsychiatric hospital serving the mid-Atlantic region and continued to serve as a neuropsychiatric hospital throughout the period of significance. The period of significance and assessment of contributing and noncontributing resources for this nomination are based on the historic district's significance within the historic contexts developed in the United States Second Generation Veterans Hospitals Multiple Property Documentation Form (MPDF). Resources constructed after 1950, and thus considered noncontributing within this nomination, may possess significance under themes not fully developed as part of the MPDF. Resources located within the medical center campus may be eligible or contributing for other associations or contexts under National Register Criteria A-D, or recent buildings/structures may be eligible under Criteria Consideration G, for resources of exceptional importance that are less than 50 years of age.

Narrative Statement of Significance (Provide at least one paragraph for each area of significance.)

The period of significance for the Coatesville VA Hospital Historic District extends from 1929 to 1950. The period of significance begins with the construction of the medical facility and continues through 1950, the date of the last federal veterans' hospital constructed utilizing the design philosophies developed for Second Generation Veterans Hospitals. The Coatesville VA Hospital Historic District is an excellent example of a Period II Second Generation Veterans Hospital that retains characteristics of a neuropsychiatric veterans hospital.

NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012)

Coatesville Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District Name of Property

Chester County, Pennsylvania County and State

Areas of Significance: Criterion A Politics and Government

The Coatesville VA Hospital Historic District is eligible under Criterion A in the area of Politics and Government at the state level of significance because of its contribution to the local, regional, and national economy during and after its construction. An overcrowded and outdated Veterans Bureau Hospital No. 49 already existed in Philadelphia.2

See Continuation Sheet, page 8.34.

Developmental history/additional historic context information (if appropriate)

See Continuation Sheet, page 8.37.

9. Major Bibliographical References

Bibliography (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form.)

See Continuation Sheet 9.43

Previous documentation on file (NPS):

__ preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67 has been requested)

__ previously listed in the National Register _Lpreviously det¢rmined eligible by the National Register designated a National Historic Landmark =recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # _ _ __ _ __ recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # ___ _ recorded by Historic American Landscape Survey#

Primary location of additional data:

State Historic Preservation Office --Other State agency

X Federal agency Local government

=University Other

Name of repository: VA Historic Preservation Office & Coatesville VA Medical Center Public Affairs Officer

Historic Resources Survey Number (if assigned) : _ _,_N.::..A~---------------

10. Geographical Data

Acreage of Pr9perty _1:..=:2:..::6:_:a=.::c:.:..re:=:.:s=--- ---=--- (Do not include previously listed resource acreage.)

UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.)

1 18 43.1630.72 4427930.55 Zone Ec;!sting Northing

2 18 441827.09 4427940.33 Zone E~sting Northing

3 18 431824.11 4427963.85 Zone Easting Northing

4 18 431965.37 4428058.64 Zone Easting Northing

11 18 432382.65 4427738.38 Zone Easting Northing

12 18 432320.84 4427731 .84 Zone Easting Northing

1318 432332.90 4427614.10 Zone Easting Northing

14 18 432293.40 4427610.18 - -- Zone Easting Northing

2 Coatesville V~terans Administration Medical Center, The Golden Years: A History of the Coatesville Veterans Administration Medical Centers First Fifty Years (Department of Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C., U.S.

Government Printing Office, 1980): 7, 11-14, located in the Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center Library; "Bus Service to Hospital Starts," Coatesville Record, December 27, 1930.

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Coatesville Veterans Administration Hos~ital Historic District Chester County, Pennsylvania Name of Property County and State

5 18 432076.53 4428094.77 1518 432147.39 4427504.18 -- Zone Easting Northing Zone Easting Northing

6 18 432137.55 4428228.87 16 18 432135.90 4427516.47 -- Zone Easting Northing Zone Easting Northing

7 18 432156.58 4428363.39 1718 431954.02 4427363.77 Zone Easting Northing Zone Easting Northing

8 18 432560.91 4428164.47 18 18 431768.45 4427267.09 -- Zone Easting Northing Zone Easting Northing

9 18 432418.86 4428012.67 1918 431692.97 4427258.58 -- Zone Easting Northing Zone Easting Northing

10 18 432357.15 4428001.15 20 18 431661.85 4427594.57 - - Zone Easting Northing Zone Easting Northing

Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property.)

The boundary of the nominated property is delineated by the polygon in solid black lines on topographic quadrangle maps on Continuation Sheet 10.49 and an aerial map on Continuation Sheet 1 0.50. The boundary is also indicated by a polygon on the enclosed USGS Coatesville, Pennsylvania and Wagontown, Pennsylvania topographic quadrangle maps. The UTM reference points, stated in NAD 27, are provided above as well as on the USGS topographic quadrangle map. The National Register of Historic Places boundary begins in a wooded area approximately 625 feet northwest of the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Blackhorse Hill Road at UTM N 4427930.55, E 431630.72. It then tends eastward approximately 745 feet to UTM N 4427940.33, E 431827.09, then north approximately 75ft to UTM N 4427963.85, E 431824.11. The boundary then extends northeast approximately 510 feet to UTM N 4428058.64, E 431965.37, and northeast again approximately 380ft to UTM N 4428094.77, E 432076.53. The boundary then extends north-northeast approximately 450 feet to UTM N 4428228.87, E 432137.55, and north again approximately 475 feet following New Jersey Avenue to its junction with LR 340 (Kings Highway) at UTM N 442836.39 E 432156.58. The boundary follows the southwestern side of LR 340 to the southeast approximately 1 ,525 feet to its junction with Blackhorse Hill Road/Cain Road at UTM N 4428164.47, E 432560.91. The historic district boundary tends southwest generally following the northwest side of Blackhorse Hill Road/Cain Road approximately 650 feet to the intersection of Blackhorse Hill Road, Cain Road, and Ridgeview Drive at UTM N 4428012.67, E 432418.86, then continuing slightly west-southwest approximately 240 feet to UTM N 4428001.15, E 432357.15. The historic district boundary then extends south approximately 845 feet to UTM N 4427738.78, E 432382.65, then west approximately 195 feet to UTM N 4427731.84, E 432320.84, and turning south approximately 370 feet to UTM N 4427614.10, E 432332.90. The boundary then turns to the west for approximately 110 feet to the formal entrance drive along Veterans Drive/Pennsylvania Avenue at UTM N 4427610.18, E 432293.40. The boundary then generally follows along the south-southeast side of the formal entry drive to the southwest approximately 500 feet to UTM N 4427504.18, E 432147.39, turning to the northwest approximately 30 feet crossing to the northwest side of the formal entry drive at UTM N 4427516.47, E 432135.90. The boundary then continues to the southwest generally following the north side of the drive approximately 875 feet to UTM N 4427363.77, E 431954.02, then proceeding again to the southwest approximately 690 feet to UTM N 4427267.09, E 431768.45. The boundary then extends west approximately 250 feet to a point at the southwest corner of the property at UTM N 4427258.58, E 431692.97, from whence it continues north following the property line approximately 1,050 feet to UTM N 4427594.57, E 431661.85, and north again approximately 1,140 feet to the beginning, encompassing approximately 126 acres.

NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018

Coatesville Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District Name of Property

Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected.)

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Chester County, Pennsylvania County and State

The proposed National Register of Historic Places nomination boundary is the current property boundary as indicated by records provided by the Engineering Department of the Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The proposed historic district boundary includes approximately 126 acres of the approximately 478-acre tract that historically comprised the hospital reservation. The historic district boundary was delineated to not only include the significant historic buildings constructed with brick exteriors and incorporating Colonial Revival and Classical Revival architectural decorative elements, but also the open space and site elements associated with the Coatesville VA Hospital, including mature trees and vegetation, linear and curvilinear drives, and lawn areas. The land to the south of the historic district, currently occupied by educational buildings and athletic fields, and former property located to the north of LR 340 (Kings Highway) and U.S. 30 (Coatesville Downingtown Bypass), no longer retain integrity to contribute to the historic district. The proposed historic district is considerably smaller than the original hospital property because of land transfers, but the proposed boundary includes the majority of resources associated with the Coatesville VA Hospital Historic District during the period of significance.

11. Form Prepared By name/title Trent Spurlock!Architectural Historian, Ann Marie P. Doyen/Architectural Historian, Robert C.

Whetseii/Historian, Robert Peltier/Architectural Historian and Holly Higgins/Architectural Historian organization Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. date November 16, 2012 street & number 151 Walton Avenue telephone 8!?9-252-4737 city or town .::cLe.::..:x..:;.i:.:..ng""tc::..o:...:..n ----------------- -=s=ta::..:cte=---'-K-'-'Y'---- --=z.:r:ip-=c=-=o-=d-=-e_4...:..0.::..:5:....:0:..::8 __ _ e-mail

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Submit the following items with the completed form:

• Maps: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location.

A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Key all photographs to this map.

• See Continuation Sheets 45-56

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Photographs:

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Name of Property: Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center

City or Vicinity: Coatesville

County: Chester State: PA

Photographer: Trent Spurlock

Date Photographed: March 8-11 , 2010

Description of Photograph(s) and number:

NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012)

Coatesville Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District Name of Property

Chester County, Pennsylvania County and State

Photograph Continuation Sheet

Name of Property: Coatesville Veterans Administration Hospital (same for all photos) City, County, State: Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania (same for all photos) Photographer: Trent Spurlock (same for all photos) Photo date: March 8-10, 2010 (same for all photos) Original Negative: N/A (submitted compact disc, same for all photos)

1. View looking north to Resources 4, 1, and 21 on hilltop from near US 30.

2. View looking southeast from Resource 1 to Resource 21 and valley below.

3. Facade of Resource 1. View looking north.

4. Facade, northwest, and north elevations of Resources 26, 19, and 27. View looking southwest.

5. View to the southwest of Resources 15, 23, 14, 52, 17, 11, 10, and 50 across Blackhorse Hill Road.

6. View looking to the east-northeast to Resources 14, 67, 15, 12, and 13.

7. View looking to the south-southeast from near Resource 53 looking to Resources 93, D, 151, 36, 67, 138, 23, and 52.

8. Northeast elevation of Resource 138. View looking to the southwest.

9. View of the west courtyard (Resource G) looking east-northeast from Resource 5 to Resources 6, 3, and 4.

10. Northwest elevation of Resource 3. View looking to the southwest.

11. View looking northeast from Resource 1 at resources in the west and east courtyards (Resources G and H).

12. Facade and southeast elevations of Resource 20. View looking west.

13. View of the east courtyard looking west-southwest to Resources 39, 38, 59, and 58.

14. Facade (northeast and southeast) elevation of Resource 59. View looking to the west-northwest.

15. Northeast courtyard entrance to Resource 139. View looking to the north-northeast.

16. View to the southwest of the northeast (rear) elevation of Resource 139.

17. Facade (southeast) elevation of Resource 58. View to the north.

18. Southwest portion of facade (southeast) elevation of Resource138. View to the northwest.

19. Facade (north) elevation of Resource 69. View to the southeast.

20. Facade (northwest) elevation of Resource 16. View to the northeast.

NPS Form 10-900 OMB No, 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012)

Coatesville Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District Name of Property

Chester County, Pennsylvania County and State

21. Facade (northwest) elevation of Resource 8. View to the southeast.

22. Facade (southwest) elevation of Resource 5. View to the northeast.

23. Facade (southwest) elevation of Resource 72. View to the northeast.

Property Owner:

(Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.)

name street & number city or town telephone state zip code

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Coatesville Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District Name of Property Chester County, Pennsylvania County and State United States Second Generation Veterans

Hospit=ai-=-~~:-.,.,----,.:-=---::---,-,:-:----- Name of multiple listing (if applicable)

The campus originally consisted of approximately 386 acres but has been reduced over the years to its current size of approximately 126 acres. The southern portion of the property originally extended to the bottom of the hill to the Lincoln Highway (Business U.S. Highway 30). The majority of all resources built during the period of signific~nce are located in the southern two-thirds of the current property boundary. The majority of the historic resources are located in the central portion of the medical center's campus.

The majority of the Coatesville VA Hospitc;il Historic District remains in open lawns with mature trees.

The formal drive, also referred to as Pennsylv~nia Avenue, begins at Business U.S. 30 and travels past the Coatesville Senior High School and other aducational buildings on land formerly owned by the VA, extending up a slope past the expansive front hillside lawn, and curving toward the main building (Resource 1, 1930). The main building, situated on a raised elevation over the front lawn, serves as the focal point of the historic district and rem~ins clearly visible from the approach road below. Patient ward/treatment buildings and food service buildings encompass two courtyards (east and west) within the central portion of the historic district. Curvilineat drives encircle both the west and east courtyards, including a curvilinear drive passing in front of the residential quarter$ in the west portion of the historic district. The primary entry to the facility is along the for;nal entrance drjve that extends up, the hillside to the south of the historic district. Parking lots are found in various locatiQns throughout the historic district, but the largest are located in the northwest, north, and northeast portions of the historic district, and additional parking is located along the edges of the curvilinear drives. The historic district can also be entered from the north by New Jersey Avenue or from Blackhorse Hill Road, which extends in a southwest-northeast direction north of the maintenance/utility buildings and the two courtyards. Terrain to the south along Pennsylvania Avenue is somewhat steep and contains a variety of mature trees. Located on more level terrain, the New Jersey Avenue access offers views qf open athletic fields and a large lawn. The east and west courtyards also remain intact, exhibiting curvilinear sidewalks, large open lawns, and mature vegetation; the only intrusion of note is a vehicular parking lot situated in tha westerly portion of the east courtyard and the nutrition/food service building (Resource 139, 1989) located in the northeast corner of the eastern courtyard. In general, the historic district is arranged with buildings along seven primary roads leading to and/or extending through the campus: Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey Avenues. Pennsylvani$, Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Maryland Avenues are laid out in an oval shape around the west courtyard; Delaware and Maryland Avenues encompass the east courtyard (Resources G and H. circa 1930-1~40s), providing access to the central patient buildings and the majority of residential buildings.

The Coatesville VA Hospital Historic District is an excellent example of a Period II neuropsychiatric Second Generation Veterans Hospital and shares many of the characteristics of this sub-type, such as the campus setting, a monumental main building, buildings functionally grouped together, the hierarchal use of Colonial Revival and Classical Revival architectural decorative elements on the exteriors of the buildings according to their public use and visibility, creating a cohesive architectural campus setting, and having H-shape patient ward/treatment buildings constructed in groups enclosing a central courtyard. The buildings constructed within the period of sighificance exhibit Colonial Revival and in certain examples elaborate Classical Revival architectural decorative elements that were nationally popular during the period of significance and utjlized for Period II Second Generation Veterans Hospitals throughout the nation. The main building (Resource 1, 1930), serves as the focal point of the historic district. The monumentality and placement of this building speaks to its prominence within the historic district, both visually and functionally. Architectural details exhibited by the main building (Resource 1, 1930) include a cupola, quoins, pilasters wjth Tuscan and Corinthian capitals, a dentil cornice and a central pavilion with a pedimented gable. It is similar to main buildings at other Period II veterans neuropsychiatric

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Coatesville Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District Name of Property ~hester ~ounty, Pennsylvania County and State United States Second Generation Veterans Hospital Name of multiple listing (if applicable) hospitals including those in Lexington, Kentucky, Lincoln, Nebraska and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The main building exhibits the most decorative elements of those within the historic district. The recreation building (Resource 5, 1930), located to the west-northwest of the main building, is the second most ornamentally decorated building within the historic district and exhibits details such as quoins, a portico supported by Tuscan columns, a broken pediment over the main entry, a modillioned cornice and cornice returns. It is similar to recreation buildings located at other Period II Second Generation Veterans Hospitals, such as Northport, New York; Bedford, Massachusetts; and Lyons, New Jersey.

The residential buildings all exhibit Colonial Revival architectural ornamentation, but to a lesser degree than the patient ward/treatment buildings. Details include pedimented entries, a modillion cornice, and cornice returns. Maintenance, storage, and utility buildings display little, if any architectural ornamentation.

The Coatesville VA Hospital Historic District has two groups of patient ward/treatment H-buildings:

one on the west side of the historic district surrounding the west courtyard, and a second to the east northeast surrounding the east courtyard. The first sub-group of patient ward/treatment buildings is encompassed by Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Maryland Avenues in the western portion of the historic district and creates the west courtyard (Resource G, circa 1930s). Nine circa 1930s buildings are still extant within this cluster. This includes the main building (Resource 1, 1930), acute building (Resource 2, 1930), dining hall (Resource 3, 1930), three continued treatment buildings (Resources 4, 1930; 6, 1932; and 8, 1932), the recreation building (Resource 5, 1930), convalescent building (Resource 7, 1933), and a neuropsychiatric infirmary building (Resource 9, 1932). The second sub-group of patient ward/treatment buildings is located in the eastern portion of the historic district along Delaware and Maryland Avenues, creating the east courtyard (Resource H, circa 1930s-1940s). This cluster contains contributing resources as well as one noncontributing resource. Contributing resources within this second cluster typically date to the mid-1930s through the 1940s and include a neuropsychiatric infirmary building (Resource 38, 1936), semi-acute building (Resource 39, 1936), neuropsychiatric infirmary and tuberculosis building (Resource 57, 1944), psychiatric building (Resource 58, 1945), and a neurological building (Resource 59, 1945). The nutrition/food service building (Resource 139, 1989) along Maryland Avenue is a large noncontributing resource.

The majority of residential buildings of the Coatesville VA Hospital Historic District are loosely arranged in the western portion of the historic district. Residential buildings are usually distanced from the patient ward/treatment buildings to provide the employees privacy from the workplace. The residential buildings include the medical officer in charge's residence (Resource 26, 1930), three officer's duplexes (Resources 19, 1930; 27, 28, both 1932), nurses' quarters (Resource 16, 1930), and two attendants' quarters (Resources 10, 1930; and 11, 1932). Several garages (Resources 43, 1943; 50, 1933; 55, 1935; and 56, 1937) are also associated with these staff residential buildings. The apartment house (Resource 18, 1930) is situated northeast of the maintenance/utility buildings, north of Blackhorse Hill Road and to the southeast of the inpatient nursing home (Resource 138, 1981) and a variety of contributing and noncontributing recreational and utility structures. Apartment buildings can also be found at Period II neuropsychiatric Second Generation Veterans Hospitals located in Northport, New York, Bedford, Massachusetts, Lyons, New Jersey, and Hines, Illinois.

The maintenance/utility buildings of the historic district are located to the northeast of the original cluster of patient ward/treatment H-buildings surrounding the west courtyard (Resource G, circa 1930s). The buildings within this maintenance/utility group include a garage (Resource 12, 1930), storehouse (Resource 13, 1930), boiler house (Resource 14, 1930), laundry (Resource 15, 1930), gas meter house (Resource 22, circa 1930s), oil house (Resource 41, circa 1930s), garage (Resource 50, 1933), and a radial brick chimney (Resource 52, 1930). A water tank and tower (Resource 23, 1930) is located south of the storehouse (Resource 13, 1930) and northwest of the neurological building (Resource 59, 1945). A second

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Hospit~--·-:---:-:--:-:--:-:-:------:-:--c---:--:--- Name of multiple listing (if applicable) water tower and tank (Resource 67, 1955) is located northeast of the facilities engineering building (Resource 70, 1961). Additional maintenance/utility buildings, most of which are small in scale and/or constructed outside of the period of significance, are found throughout the historic district.

The residential buildings constructed by the VA at Second Generation Veterans Hospitals have often been converted to offices after the period of significance. Although the interiors of buildings within the historic district were not fully investigated, often the duplexes and manager's quarters interior arrangements are little changed at other Second Generation Veterans Hospitals, except for the addition of desks, office dividers, and new floor coverings. The interiors of the patient care buildings have been altered to accommodate changes in health care and updating for safety issues. The interior walls throughout the buildings have commonly been resurfaced. The floors of the corridors usually have new coverings; drop ceilings have been installed, as have automatically closing fire and smoke doors along corridors for safety during a fire. Entries to the patient rooms may have been enlarged to accommodate larger patient beds.

Individual Resource Inventory

The dates of construction and details regarding the former and current use of the buildings were collected from files provided by the Engineering Department at the Coatesville Veteran Affairs Medical Center. Historic names and uses were utilized for the resources wherever possible. Materials reviewed for this project include the 2009 building inventoryNeterans Affairs Asset Inventory; the "Veterans Administration Medical Center Master Plan, Coatesville Pennsylvania,"3 "Executive Order 12512 Real Property Utilization Survey;" a 1937 map entitled "Veterans Administration Hospital, Coatesville, Penna.;" and a June 4, 1935, map entitled "Great Court Design and Plantings."4 The numerical designations of the resources were assigned at the time of their construction by the VA. The letter and numerical designation for resources, such as Resource T-4 (athletic fieldhouse, 1948), was assigned by the VA, with the letter 'T' usually denoting a building or structure that was originally considered temporary rather than a permanent building. Any "circa" construction dates and letter designations were provided by the authors for resources without construction dates or numerical designations. All resources that were present during the period of significance and that retain integrity are considered contributing resources. Minor resources that are not substantial in size and scale were not included in the resource count. Minor noncontributing resources that were not designated in the resource count include underground storage facilities, small memorials, benches, sheltered bus stops, pavilions, small frame picnic shelters, and smoking shelters.

A number of buildings originally associated with the Coatesville VA Hospital are not located within the contiguous tract of the hospital or are located on property no longer owned by the hospital. At the former main entrance to the hospital property, the intersection of Veterans Drive (that becomes Pennsylvania Avenue) and Business U.S. Highway 30, is a stone gate house and a mortared stone fence that extends for approximately 900 feet along the north side of Business U.S. Highway 30. The stone gate house and fence were purportedly constructed by patients of the hospital in the 1930s. The

3 Synterra Limited, "Veterans Administration Medical Center Master Plan, Coatesville, Pennsylvania;" Files of the Engineering Department, Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Coatesville, Pennsylvania.

4 United States Department of Veterans Affairs, "Executive Order 12512 Survey, Real Property Utilization Survey, VA Medical Center, Coatesville, PA," December 20, 2002, GSA Inventory Control Number 3600-10256 (Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Coatesville, Pennsylvania), files of the Engineering Department, Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Coatesville, Pennsylvania.

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Coatesville Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District ---- -----------· Name of Property Chester County, Pennsylvania County and State United States Second Generation Veterans Hospital Name of multiple listing (if applicable) gate house appears on the October 1944 cover of The Federal Architect.5 A two-story, five-bay, side gable, stone residence is located to the south of the current Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center property. This former stone residence, once used as attendants' quarters for the hospital, is currently within property utilized by the local school district. Because of the modern school construction and distance between the hospital and the stone fence, gate house, and stone farm house, these three structures are not included in the resource count for this nomination. Agricultural buildings once utilized by the Coatesville VA Hospital were located on property no longer owned by the hospital to the north of Kings Highway (State Route 340) and the Coatesville Downingtown Bypass (U.S. 30). Agricultural buildings used by the hospital included a slaughter house, corn crib, implement shed, and a barn.

These buildings appear to be no longer extant. A residence also appears to have been located within the agricultural property, as shown on the 1937 map entitled "Veterans Administration Hospital, Coatesville, Penna."6 If any of these buildings are extant, modern intrusions such as the highway and residential development are now situated between the historic district and the buildings formerly associated with the hospital. Two small pump houses are situated on a discontiguous tract of approximately one acre located southwest of the main building (Resource 1, 1930), near the Coatesville Senior High School. Because of their location on a discontiguous tract and with modern school construction adjacent to the east portion of the tract, they are not included in the resource count for this nomination.

The period of significance and assessment of contributing and noncontributing resources for this nomination are based on the historic district's significance within the historic contexts developed in the United States Second Generation Veterans Hospitals Multiple Property Documentation Form (MPDF).

Resources constructed after 1950, and thus considered noncontributing within this nomination, may possess significance under themes not fully developed as part of the MPDF. Resources located within the medical center campus may be eligible or contributing for other associations or contexts under National Register Criteria A-D, or recent buildings/structures may be eligible under Criteria Consideration G, for resources of exceptional importance that are less than 50 years of age.

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Main Building Acute Building

Dining Hall Continued Treatment Building

Recreation Building Continued Treatment Building

Convalescent Building Continued Treatment Building

Neuropsychiatric Infirmary Building Attendants' Quarters Attendants' Quarters

Garage Storehouse

Boiler House

5 Edwin B. Morris, editor, The Federal Architect 13, no. 1, (October 1944 ).

6 United States Department of Veterans Affairs, files of the Engineering Department, Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Coatesville, Pennsylvania.

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Laundry Nurses' Quarters

Air Conditioning Plant Apartment House Officer's Duplex

Entry at Blackhorse Hill Road Flag Pole

Gas Meter House Water Tower and Tank

Medical Officer in Charge's Residence Officer's Duplex Officer's Duplex

Greenhouse Neuropsychiatric Infirmary Building

Semi-Acute Building Gardener's Tool House

Oil House Garage

Gardener Storage Building Garage

Radial Brick Chimney Pump House

Garage Garage

Neuropsychiatric Infirmary and Tuberculosis Building Psychiatric Building

Neurological Building Swimming Pool

Water Tower and Tank Picnic Shelter

Physical Medicine/Rehabilitation Service Building

Facilities Engineering Building Emergency Generator Building

Chapel Main Substation

Emergency Generator Building Emergency Generator Building Emergency Generator Building

Air Conditioner Condenser Pool Filter House

Emergency Generator Building Picnic Shelter

Restrooms Building Oxygen Storage Facility

Incinerator Inpatient Nursing Home

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Nutrition/Food Service Picnic Pavilion

Child Care Center Connecting Corridors Connecting Corridors

Maintenance Storage Building Barn/Storage Building

Gardening Shed Equipment Shed West Courtyard East Courtyard

Athletic Fieldhouse Equipment Storage Shed

Resource 1. Main Building. 1930. Contributing building.

Located along Pennsylvania Avenue within the southwestern portion of the campus, the main building (Resource 1, 1930) serves as…