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The Northwestern Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The historic district of the Milwaukee Soldiers Home campus, on the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center grounds. 〔( National Trust for Historic Preservation: National Soldiers Home Historic District ), NTHP List of 11 Most Endangered Historic Places . accessed 12.1.2015.〕 Contributing buildings in the district were constructed from 1867 to 1955.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Northwestern Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District )〕 ==History== The Northwestern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was established in 1866, as an Old soldiers' home for American Civil War veterans in the then Northwestern region of United States. 〔(LOC−HABS: History and description of Ward Memorial Hall )〕 The Wisconsin Soldiers’ Home Society transferred the money and property already acquired by that group to the federal effort for the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, renamed the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in 1873. The Eastern Branch was opened in 1866 at a former resort in Togus, Maine. The Central Branch was established in 1867 outside of Dayton, Ohio. The Northwestern and Central Branches had ambitious building campaigns that erected large-scale institutional structures within carefully designed landscapes.〔 The Main Building (Old Main), designed in the Victorian Second Empire style by Milwaukee architect E. Townsend Mix, was completed in 1869. The large structure used a centralized model, housing all the services and soldiers within it. Expansion of the membership and a shift towards a decentralized model in the 1880s and 1890s resulted in the construction of a number of specialized new buildings at the Milwaukee Soldiers Home. 〔 In 1879 a new hospital was built west of the Main Building. This structure was the first major step toward creating the cluster of buildings that define the historic core of the campus. 〔 The Milwaukee firm of Henry C. Koch was the architect for many buildings during this period of expansion including the hospital (1879), Ward Memorial Hall (1882), the chapel (1889), Wadsworth Library (1892), and the headquarters building (1894).〔 Ward Memorial Hall is an 1882 theater−meeting room, store, restaurant, and railroad ticket office. 〔 In 1930 the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, the Pension Bureau, and the Veterans’ Bureau were combined under the new Veterans Administration. The Northwestern Branch became known as the Wood, Wisconsin station of the Veterans’ Administration.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Northwestern Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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