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Front (west side) entrance bay - Fitzsimons General Hospital, Swimming Pool, Southeast corner of East Nineteenth Place (formerly East McAfee Avenue) and Wheeling Street (formerly South Van Valzah Street), Aurora, Adams County, CO
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Whitacre, Roger

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Mead and Mount Construction, Contractor
Mead and Mount Construction
Simmons, Thomas H, historian
Simmons, R Laurie, historian
Title
Front (west side) entrance bay - Fitzsimons General Hospital, Swimming Pool, Southeast corner of East Nineteenth Place (formerly East McAfee Avenue) and Wheeling Street (formerly South Van Valzah Street), Aurora, Adams County, CO
Depicted place Colorado; Adams County; Aurora
Date 1998
date QS:P571,+1998-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS COLO,1-AUR,2DC-1
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: It was constructed in 1945 as part of a massive building campaign at the Fitzsimons General Hospital during WWII. The building originally provided aquatic therapy for disabled or paralyzed hospital patients, using methods that were innovative for their day. Architecturally, the brick walls and substation proportions of the building convey a solid, permanent character, reflective of the increasing permanence of buildings throughout the hospital campus at that time. In 1998, Aurora assumed ownership of the swimming pool and opened the facility to the public. The building quickly became a popular community landmark, and was actively used by the public until its closure in March 2009.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1593
  • Survey number: HABS CO-172-DC
  • Building/structure dates: 1945 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1970 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1998 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 2002 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/co0818.photos.329066p
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Object location39° 43′ 45.98″ N, 104° 49′ 53″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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