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Perspective view from southwest - National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, Building No. 62, 1700 East 38th Street, Marion, Grant County, IN
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Rosenthal, James W., creator
Title
Perspective view from southwest - National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, Building No. 62, 1700 East 38th Street, Marion, Grant County, IN
Description
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Depicted place Indiana; Grant County; Marion
Date Documentation compiled after 1933; 2008
Dimensions 5 x 7 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 IN-306-U-1
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  • See HABS No. IN-306 for overview documentation. Additional individual building documentation in HABS No. IN-306-A through HABS No. IN-306-AR.
  • Significance: Building No. 62 was the Greenhouse for the Marion Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS). The NHDVS was a federal institution authorized by Congress in 1865 and charged with caring for Civil War veterans disabled by their military service. Founded in 1889, the Marion Branch was the seventh NHDVS branch and featured a picturesque campus of winding avenues and red brick Queen Anne buildings with wide porches and ornamental balustrades. By 1930 the NHDVS system had eleven branches and became part of the new Veterans Administration.

The Greenhouse was erected in several stages between 1895 and 1899, and expanded in 1905. The campus design followed the tenets of the picturesque movement including curving avenues and decorative plantings. As a utilitarian or subsidiary structure in the campus hierarchy, the Greenhouse represents the National Home's emphasis on the well-being of the veterans and the expectation that the veterans themselves would contribute to their care by working on the grounds. Branch members and civilian employees could cultivate flowers in the greenhouse and create the elaborate ornamental plantings around the campus.

The Marion Branch became part of the Veterans Administration in 1930 and the Greenhouse continued to be used to provide ornamental plants for the grounds. The Greenhouse was renovated by the VA in 1933. Since vacated during the 1970s, the Greenhouse has fallen into disrepair. It was demolished in early 2012.

  • Survey number: HABS IN-306-U
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1895- ca. 1899 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1905 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 2012 Demolished
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Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/in0495.photos.574739p
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