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Many of the old soldiers' homes in the United States were constructed in high Victorian style, like the New Hampshire Soldiers' Home in Tilton, New Hampshire. An old soldiers' home is a military veterans ' retirement home , nursing home , or hospital , or sometimes an institution for the care of the widows and orphans of a nation's soldiers ...
The first Atlanta Confederate Soldiers' Home (also called the Old Soldiers' Home) was built in 1890 [1] with the support of Henry W. Grady at a cost of $45,000. Grady proposed the idea first in 1889, and began to raise funds through "subscriptions". [2] Due to lack of funds the home did not open until 1900. [3]
The building was completed in 1867 and it went by several names, including National Asylum for Disabled Soldiers and National Home for Disabled Soldiers. [1] The building was unoccupied starting in 1989, [3] and had fallen into disrepair and was scheduled to be demolished.
The Confederate Memorial State Historic Site is a state-owned property occupying approximately 135 acres (55 ha) near Higginsville, Missouri.From 1891 to 1950, the site was used as an old soldiers' home for veterans of the Confederate States Army after the American Civil War.
The Soldiers' Home occupies a campus in N.W. Washington, D.C. It sits adjacent to two historic cemeteries, Rock Creek Cemetery and United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery (the forerunner of Arlington National Cemetery). The Soldiers' Home has had many interesting historic buildings, some of which survive to the present day.
Pages in category "Old soldiers' homes in the United States" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
President Lincoln's Cottage is a historic home used by Abraham Lincoln on the grounds of the Soldiers' Home, known today as the Armed Forces Retirement Home, near the Petworth neighborhood in Washington, D.C. In 2000 it was designated a national monument called President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home National Monument.
The Soldiers' Home Historic District, a historic Old soldiers' home campus, is located in Columbia Falls, Flathead County, Montana. The 147 acres (59 ha) historic district has 9 listed buildings, designed in the Victorian Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles .