Barracks, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, Los Angeles, circa 1928
Description
Long shot of 3-story brick barracks building with square center tower, with arched windows on 2nd floor, rectangular windows on 1st and 3rd floors, with 4 men and 2 cars near building, with dirt yard and overhanging palm tree in foreground, Date from National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Assessment of Significance And National Historic Landmark Recommendations (www.nps.gov): The James W. Wadsworth Hospital opened in 1927 ... The next year, new barracks and a new mess hall were constructed, -118.46169233322143, 34.05454388760298, Handwritten at edge of negative: 2468 P3, The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS), Pacific Branch, was an earlier name, in part, for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Photographed on the grounds of what was later named the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System (U.S.), Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2468 - 2468 - 2470 - 2471 2472 - 2473 - 2474 Soldiers Home Bldgs, Cemetery - barracks, Building identification from www.nps.gov/nhl/themes/Special%20Studies/NHDVS/Pacific%20Branch.pdf, Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.