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Northwestern Branch, National Home For Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District
The Northwestern Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District is a veterans' hospital located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with roots going back to the Civil War. Contributing property, Contributing buildings in the district were constructed from 1867 to 1955, and the Historic districts in the United States, historic district of the Milwaukee Soldiers Home campus lies within the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center grounds, just west of American Family Field. History In 1865 Abraham Lincoln approved a "National Asylum" to care for volunteer Union soldiers who had been wounded during the American Civil War, Civil War. The Northwestern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was established in 1866, as an old soldiers' home in the then northwestern region of United States.* The Wisconsin Soldiers' Home Society transferred the money and property already acquired by that group to the federal effort for the National Asylum for Disabled Vol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ward Memorial Hall
Ward Memorial Hall is an 1880s theater building within the Northwestern Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is part of the Milwaukee Soldiers Home complex, designated Building No. 41, on the present day Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center grounds. The 900 seat theater was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, as part of an effort to renovate and preserve it. History Ward Memorial Hall was built in 1881-82 during a period of expansion for the Northwestern Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District, Northwestern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers facilities, originally the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (1867−1873). with On its completion theatrical entertainment moved from the chapel in the 1869 Main Building. Prominent Milwaukee architect Henry C. Koch designed Ward Memorial Hall in the High Victorian Gothic Revi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
