{"nrhp_refnum":"12000994","name":"Northampton Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District","other_names":["Northampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center,  NTH.M","Veterans Affairs Central Western Mass. Healthcare System"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"421 N. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Northampton","county":"Hampshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.348092000000065,"lon":-72.68332149956862,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-12-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Politics/Government","Health/Medicine"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A hospital campus of about 105 acres at 421 North Main Street in the Leeds village of Northampton, Massachusetts, opened in 1924 as a neuropsychiatric hospital for veterans. It holds 61 resources, 36 of them contributing, mostly brick buildings on a hilltop.","why_significant":"The district is presented as a well-preserved example of a Second Generation (Period I) veterans neuropsychiatric hospital designed by the Army Quartermaster Corps Construction Service. It keeps its hilltop oval layout, patient ward buildings, staff residences and support buildings from 1922 to 1950. It is considered significant at the statewide level.","narrative":"Set on a hilltop about three miles northwest of downtown Northampton, this veterans hospital campus opened in 1924 as a neuropsychiatric facility. Construction began in 1922 from designs by the Army Quartermaster Corps Construction Service. The earliest patient ward and treatment buildings, the Main Building and the Mess and Kitchen Building are grouped around an oval drive. Brick exteriors carry restrained Colonial Revival details, and staff duplexes and officer housing along the entrance drive show Dutch Colonial Revival features such as gambrel roofs. Maintenance and utility buildings sit down the slope to the southwest. The grounds once covered roughly 286 acres, where patients worked on farm operations as occupational therapy; the campus has since shrunk to about 105 acres. The district includes 36 contributing resources dating from 1922 to 1950, and it resembles other early-1920s veterans hospitals in Iowa, Michigan and Ohio. The campus remains in use as a medical center.","period_of_significance":"1922-1950","architect_builder":"Construction Service, Quartermaster Corps of the Army","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals / Colonial Revival (Dutch Colonial Revival staff residences)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still operating as a health care facility (Northampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center); several farm and support buildings have been demolished.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:10:51.896712-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_AL/12000994.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000994/e350f80ce9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000994/e350f80ce9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NorthamptonMA_VA_Housing.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NorthamptonMA_VA_Housing.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77835165","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northampton_Veterans_Affairs_Medical_Center","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16895943"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampshire-county/northampton-veterans-administration-hospital-historic-district-12000994/"}