Canandaigua Veterans Hospital Historic District

Set on a landscaped campus about a mile northeast of downtown Canandaigua, this veterans hospital district opened in 1933 as a neuropsychiatric facility and still provides health care to veterans. Its twelve original buildings, designed by the Veterans Bureau Construction Division and dated 1931, include a four-story main building, a kitchen and dining hall, recreation building, and utility structures. H-shaped patient ward buildings are arranged around two courtyards linked by brick corridors; the first group served World War I veterans and a second group from the 1940s served World War II veterans. The brick buildings use Tudor Revival and Jacobethan Revival ornamentation, with the most detail on public-facing buildings, echoing the neighboring Sonnenberg Estate, whose few surviving structures are also included. Mature trees, open lawns and the straight entry drive to the main building remain intact. The district was recognized as a well-preserved example of a Second Generation Veterans Hospital, with a period of significance of 1931 to 1950.