{"nrhp_refnum":"12000799","name":"Fayetteville Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District","other_names":["Fayetteville Veterans Affairs Medical Center / CD0980"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"2300 Ramsey St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fayetteville","county":"Cumberland County","state":"NC","lat":35.088926106500054,"lon":-78.87658118545596,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-09-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Politics/Government","Health/Medicine"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of a Veterans Administration hospital campus at 2300 Ramsey Street, about 2.5 miles north of downtown Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. Construction began in 1939 and the district covers about 32 acres with eleven contributing and seventeen noncontributing resources.","why_significant":"The district is significant under Criteria A and C in politics/government, health/medicine and architecture. It is an example of a Period II general medical and surgical Second Generation Veterans Hospital, with a central main building, separated residential and utility areas, and Colonial and Classical Revival detailing. The main building also adapts local precedent by modeling its upper levels on Fayetteville's Market House.","narrative":"Located 2.5 miles north of downtown Fayetteville, this veterans hospital campus was built beginning in 1939 on a 145-acre tract donated to the federal government in December 1938 after more than thirty cities competed for the facility. The listed district covers about 32 acres and includes a five-story, H-shaped brick main building with Classical Revival features, a service building, staff residences in a restrained Colonial Revival style, a laundry, a flag pole and a landscaped entrance drive. Its upper levels borrow from the old Market House downtown, showing how the Veterans Administration adapted standard plans to local landmarks. The campus follows the layout typical of general medical and surgical veterans hospitals built between the late 1920s and 1950, with clinical buildings at the center, housing set apart, and utilities placed to the rear. Later additions, including a 1988 outpatient clinic, have altered parts of the grounds, but the hospital still operates and its original spatial arrangement remains legible.","period_of_significance":"1939-1950","architect_builder":"Construction Service, Veterans Administration","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals / Colonial Revival / Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a hospital (Fayetteville Veterans Affairs Medical Center); later additions include a 1988 outpatient clinic and post-1950 buildings and parking lots.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.25185-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_AL/12000799.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77835043","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayetteville_Veterans_Administration_Hospital_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18207045"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cumberland-county/fayetteville-veterans-administration-hospital-historic-district-12000799/"}