Typewritten description of buildings at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Los Angeles, circa 1928

Item Overview

Title

Typewritten description of buildings at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Los Angeles, circa 1928

Creator

Bartlett, Adelbert, $d 1887-1966

Date Created

[circa 1928]

Date

1928

Language

English

Collection

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Notes

Description

The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS), Pacific Branch, was an earlier name, in part, for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Description is of the grounds of what was later named the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System (U.S.)

Caption

Text reads in part: Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th St, Santa Monica. Pacific Branch, National Military Home, for veterans of wars in which America has participated occupies a palm and pepper-tree shaded 500-acre site at Sawtelle, Calif., on the slopes of the Santa Monica mountains some 20 miles from Long Beach. This city's tall office buildings are plainly visible from the Home on clear days. The Home at present has on its rolls some 5000 veterans of the civil, Spanish and World Wars. Of this number 3512 are resident of the home, and 1500 are on furlough. The Sawtelle Military Home was opened in 1887. Its 25 two-storey frame buildings of the old army post type of architecture which have been a familiar sight to veteran and visitor alike are being remodeled and made more comfortable and sanitary. During the past year fire destroyed the old frame mess hall. Immediately the government architects designed an artistic modern mess hall which has recently been put in service. The home maintains extensive flower and vegetable gardens. Following the world war our government opened at Sawtelle a large tuberculosis hospital and the James Wadsworth general hospital for the wounded. These buildings have been filled to capacity ever since. At present the government is erecting on the grounds of the home a new dormitory and a new three-unit $1,000,000 convalescent barracks of reinforced concrete, brick and tile construction. The three convalescent barracks face the east, south and west and are grouped about a central court in which is to be located a community kitchen, refrigeration plant and other equipment efficiently to serve a modern hospital plant. These buildings are being built with one-half of the $2,100,000 voted recently by congress for new construction at the Sawtelle Military Home. Ninety per cent of the materials used in the new work are produced in Southern California. Col John A. Hadley is governor of Pacific Branch, National Military Home, Sawtelle, Calif.

Physical Description

Extent

2 p.

Keywords

Genre

typescripts

Names

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Pacific Branch
Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System (U.S.)

Resource type

still image