{"nrhp_refnum":"12000160","name":"Batavia Veterans Administration Hospital","other_names":["Batavia Veterans Affairs Medical Center"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"222 Richmond Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Batavia","county":"Genesee County","state":"NY","lat":43.01316052550007,"lon":-78.1973855539382,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-03-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Health/Medicine","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 45-acre hospital campus at 222 Richmond Avenue in Batavia, Genesee County, New York, about a mile northwest of downtown. Its first buildings were constructed in 1932 and the hospital was dedicated in 1934 by the Veterans Administration.","why_significant":"The district is nominated as an excellent example of a Period II (late 1920s to 1950) general medical and surgical hospital, one of the Second Generation Veterans Hospitals. It keeps the characteristic campus plan, with a monumental main building, functional clusters of buildings, open lawns and a formal entrance drive. Its Colonial Revival and Classical Revival brick buildings form a cohesive group.","narrative":"Batavia's veterans hospital campus sits at 222 Richmond Avenue, about a mile northwest of downtown. Dedicated in 1934, it was built as a general medical and surgical hospital, and it still serves veterans. Land holdings once exceeded 90 acres and are now about 45. Fourteen original buildings were designed by the Veterans Administration's Construction Service and arranged in three clusters: a central core, residential quarters, and maintenance and utility buildings. The monumental main building and the recreation building show elaborate Classical Revival detail. The dining hall, nurses' quarters, manager's house and officers' duplexes are in a plainer Colonial Revival style. Brick corridors link the core buildings, and a horseshoe entrance drive, brick gateposts, open lawns and mature trees define the setting. Twenty of the thirty-one resources contribute to the district's 1932-1950 period of significance. The property was listed as a fine surviving example of a Period II veterans hospital, a type documented in a national multiple property study.","period_of_significance":"1932-1950","architect_builder":"Designed by the Construction Service of the Veterans Administration","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals / Colonial Revival / Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still operating as a veterans health care facility; later buildings were added after 1950, and the water tower, boiler house chimney stack and one garage have been removed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.049916-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_AL/12000160.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77835085","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_Veterans_Administration_Hospital","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4868680"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/genesee-county/batavia-veterans-administration-hospital-12000160/"}