Fort McPherson, World War II Station Hospital, Hospital Wards, Anderson Way & Howe Street, Atlanta

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Building 128 was built as an eighty-two-patient Standard Ward and Building 131 as a seventy-two-patient Combination Special and Neuropsychiatric Ward for the Station Hospital in They signify the expansion of the Station Hospital during World War II and the role of the 800-series hospital, the first use of semipermanent construction for World War II hospital mobilization. Description: Buildings 129 and 131 are two of four two-story hospital wards set parallel to one another and connected via two-story, brick enclosed, ramped corridors. The wards are rectangular structures, three bays wide and twenty-nine bays (Building and thirty-two bays (Building long. They have concrete foundations and hollow-tile walls with brick veneers. Pitched roofs are covered in composition shingle.

End-gable windows are set within two-story, segmentally arched openings with vinyl-sided spandrels. Gable ends feature enlarged louvers. Window openings on the long walls are segmentally arched . New, aluminum windows (with fake muntins) replicate the original division of lights. Originally open sun porches are filled in with either fixed or double- hung sash windows, depending on the building. Original interiors featured double-loaded corridors with private rooms at center and open wards at the ends. Interiors have been gutted, but the central corridor plan is still prominent. History: Buildings 129 and 131 are two of four wards built to increase bed capacity at the Fort's Station Hospital. Building 128 was built as a Type (modified to eighty-two beds), standard ward.

Building 131 was built as a Type ward to plan The cost of the wards was They represent late examples of the 800-series, two-story, semipermanent hospital. Building 128 remained a hospital after World War II, while Building 131 was converted to offices. Today, both buildings are primarily administrative.

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Completion Report, Job Number TI at Fort McPherson, Georgia. January - May (Record Group 77, Army Corps of Engineers, Completion Reports, Fort McPherson. Washington National Records Center.) Diane Shaw Wasch and Perry Bush for Historic American Buildings Survey, Part I: The Historical Context of World War II Mobilization Construction, Draft, November