SR174 Veterans Administration
The VA facility erected structures such as the nurses’ home to house medical staff. The first patients were admitted on April 23, 1935. Some of the patients, as a form of therapy, actually conducted farming operations on the grounds of the facility, engaging in raising hogs and cattle.
Woodward Studio
Roanoke Public Libraries
1940
Nelson Harris, George Wade
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Davis 39 RMH Nurses Home
Roanoke Memorial Hospital nurses' home, formerly located in the 1600 block of Belleview Avenue SE.
George C. Davis Photography
Roanoke Public Libraries
Circa 1940
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