File:View from southwest corner of Gray Road and McMahon Avenue looking north east - National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, 1700 East 38th Street, Marion, Grant County, HABS IN-306-2.tif
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View from southwest corner of Gray Road and McMahon Avenue looking north east - National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, 1700 East 38th Street, Marion, Grant County, IN | |||||
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Rosenthal, James W., creator |
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Title |
View from southwest corner of Gray Road and McMahon Avenue looking north east - National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, 1700 East 38th Street, Marion, Grant County, IN |
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Description |
Peters and Burns; Saint, William; Steele, George; Burns, Silas R; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Mason, Anne, transmitter |
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Depicted place | Indiana; Grant County; Marion | ||||
Date | Documentation compiled after 1933; 2008 | ||||
Dimensions | 5 x 7 in. | ||||
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print |
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HABS IN-306-2 |
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As a federal facility, the Marion Home is indicative of the interplay between political patronage in Washington, D.C. and the development of a local jurisdiction. Like many of the NHDVS branches, a powerful politician was instrumental in influencing its location. Congressman George Steele of the 11th Indiana Congressional District successfully promoted the creation of this Branch in Grant County with the promise of an on-site natural gas well for free heating and lighting. This section of Indiana was experiencing a boom brought on by the discovery of natural gas in 1886. Steele served as local manager and later as Branch Governor. In 1921, the Marion Branch became the Marion National Sanitarium, a facility dedicated to the treatment World War I neuropsychiatric cases, including what was then called shell shock and other mental disorders. The emphasis throughout the NHDVS had been shifting from residential campuses to more sophisticated medical care for veterans. Marion was an important effort to address mental illness in veterans. Since 1882 serious psychiatric cases were simply transferred to the Government Hospital for the Insane in Washington, DC. The large number of young veterans suffering from these problems after World War I brought a greater effort to use new methods of treatment to restore their mental health. After 1930 the Marion Branch continued to specialize in psychiatric care as part of the Veterans Administration. The original hospital and many of the barracks were still used for patients until new psychiatric facilities were built on the west side of the site. While the current Northern Indiana VA Medical Center uses many of the historic structures, a number of the buildings on the east side of the campus are vacant, in disrepair, and slated for demolition.
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Source | https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/in0474.photos.574656p | ||||
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