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The Mountain Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was an old soldiers' home opened in 1904 in
Mountain Home A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher th ...
, Johnson City, Tennessee. Its site has since been taken over by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, and is home to the
Mountain Home National Cemetery Mountain Home National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at Mountain Home, within Johnson City in Washington County, Tennessee. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses , and as of 2018 ...
and the James H. Quillen VA Center. Also known as the Mountain Home, its campus was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2011, as a well-preserved example of an early 20th-century veterans care facility.


Description and history

The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS) was created by the United States federal government in the waning days of the American Civil War, as a means to provide needed support for Union Army veterans of the war. Between 1865 and 1930 a total of eleven branches of this service were founded. The Mountain Branch was established in 1901 by the NHDVS through the efforts of Congressman
Walter P. Brownlow Walter Preston Brownlow (March 27, 1851 – July 8, 1910) was an American politician who represented Tennessee's 1st district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1897 until his death in 1910. He is remembered for obtaining large feder ...
. Land for the campus was purchased soon after the enabling legislation was signed, and major development took place between then and 1903, when the unfinished facility opened its doors. The campus was designed by New York City architect Joseph H. Freelander, a proponent of the Beaux Arts style of architecture, and landscape designer Carl Andersen. The many surviving buildings that make up the core of the present VA campus are in the Beaux Arts style. The complex received notice in architectural publications, including criticism that it was overly exotic for its comparatively rural location. The NHDVS was absorbed in the Veterans Administration (now the United States Department of Veterans Affairs) in 1930, at which time another round of construction took place. A third major round of building occurred in the 1970s and 1980s, after the VA developed a master plan for the site. The Mountain Home National Cemetery was established in 1903, in a manner similar to other national cemeteries located adjacent to NHDVS facilities. Most of the surviving campus continues to be used by the Department of Veterans of Affairs as the James H. Quillen VA Center.


See also

* List of National Historic Landmarks in Tennessee *
National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Tennessee __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Tennessee. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington Coun ...


References

{{National Register of Historic Places Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch National Historic Landmarks in Tennessee Hospital buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Historic American Buildings Survey in Tennessee National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Tennessee