National Register of Historic Places
Lincoln Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District
Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska
The record
- Listed
- September 10, 2012
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- 600 S. 70th St., Lincoln
- County
- Lancaster
- State
- Nebraska
- Contributing resources
- 15 buildings, 1 structure, 2 sites, 1 object
- Coordinates
- 40.80960, -96.62231
- Reference number
- 12000785
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The story
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The Lincoln Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District is a historic district at 600 S. 70th St. in Lincoln, Lancaster County, listed in the National Register in 2012. Its main building was built around 1930 in the Classical Revival and Colonial Revival styles.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with state-level significance in politics and government, health and medicine, and architecture. Its period of significance runs from 1930 to 1950, spanning the main building's construction around 1930 to a 300-bed capacity reached in 1950.
Physical character
The main building is brick on a concrete foundation, trimmed in terra cotta, with a central entrance pavilion under a swan's neck broken pediment with a pineapple finial. Other contributing buildings have hollow-clay tile and concrete block walls; the main building's cupola was removed in 1956, and an ambulatory care clinic and an outpatient clinic were added in 1983.
Historical context
Lincoln was chosen as the hospital's site in 1928 after the Chamber of Commerce lobbied for it, and the community raised over $100,000 toward the Leavitt farm; the hospital opened with 197 beds in 1931 and grew to 379 beds in 1944. A 1955 federal commission recommended closing nineteen VA hospitals nationwide, and in 1965 the VA announced this one would close within six months; inpatient services here ended in 1998, and in 2003 the Leavitt house was bought by Bruce and Maureen Stahr.