Batavia Veterans Administration Hospital

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.