Danville Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District
Illinois, United States
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The Danville Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District in Danville, Illinois preserves the campus of a veterans facility that opened in 1898 as one of eleven branches of the National Home founded in 1867 to care for Union soldiers disabled in the Civil War. Established through the political influence of U.S. Representative Joseph Gurney Cannon, the branch functioned as both medical facility and planned community, housing veterans and incorporating shops, halls, a school, library, chapel, and cemetery. Most buildings adopt Georgian Revival architecture, while the library showcases Classical Revival style and the chapel displays Gothic Revival design. Today the campus buildings are shared between a Veterans Affairs hospital and Danville Area Community College. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
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- National Register of Historic Places listed place
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- Illinois, United States
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