Fayetteville Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District

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.