{"nrhp_refnum":"12000110","name":"Chillicothe Veterans Administration Hospital","other_names":["United States Veterans Bureau Hospital No. 97","Chillicothe Veterans Affairs Medical Center"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"17273 OH 104","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chillicothe","county":"Ross County","state":"OH","lat":39.390681564500056,"lon":-83.01963337861233,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-03-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Health/Medicine","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A campus-style historic district of 55 contributing resources at 17273 State Route 104 near Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, opened in 1924 as a veterans neuropsychiatric hospital. It occupies about 307 acres of the former Camp Sherman land.","why_significant":"The district is significant as an example of a Second Generation Veterans Hospital, a neuropsychiatric hospital campus type. Because it contains buildings from both Period I (early to mid-1920s) and Period II (late 1920s to 1950), it shows how veterans hospital design evolved. Its buildings use Colonial Revival and Classical Revival styles, and the campus planning moved from straight drives to curvilinear landscape forms.","narrative":"Chillicothe's veterans hospital campus sits on a slight rise along State Route 104 in Ross County, Ohio. Construction began in 1922 on land transferred from Camp Sherman, a World War I training camp, and the hospital opened in 1924 to treat veterans with neuropsychiatric conditions. Of 81 resources in the historic district, 55 contribute to its character. They include two main buildings, H-shaped patient ward buildings, a recreation building, a kitchen and dining hall, residential quarters, a boiler plant, shops and garages. The buildings fall into three clusters by function: a central core, residences and maintenance and utility buildings. The original 1923 buildings are plain, while the 1938 main building is the most ornate. Buildings from the 1920s and from the 1930s through 1950 show how veterans hospital design changed, in both architecture and landscape. The hospital still serves veterans in southeast Ohio.","period_of_significance":"1922-1950","architect_builder":"Construction Service, Quartermaster Corps of the Army (original buildings and campus, apparently designed for the Veterans Bureau)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival / Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still operating as a hospital (the Chillicothe Veterans Affairs Medical Center); 55 of 81 resources contribute.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.290006-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_AL/12000110.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77835516","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/ross-county/chillicothe-veterans-administration-hospital-12000110/"}