An old soldiers' home is a

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, or hospital, or sometimes an institution for the care of the widows and orphans of a nation's soldiers, sailors, and marines, etc.

United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom the Royal Hospital Chelsea was established by King Charles II in 1682 as a retreat for veterans.Guidebook, p. 3 The provision of a hostel rather than the payment of pensions was inspired by Les Invalides in Paris. The Royal Hospital Chelsea, often called simply Chelsea Hospital, is a

and

for some 300 veterans of the

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. It is a 66-acre site located on Royal Hospital Road in

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. It is an independent charity and relies partly upon donations to cover day-to-day running costs to provide care and accommodation for veterans. Any man or woman who is over the age of 65 and served as a regular soldier may apply to become a

Chelsea Pensioner A Chelsea Pensioner, or In-Pensioner, is a resident at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, a retirement home and nursing home for former members of the British Army located in Chelsea, London. The Royal Hospital Chelsea is home to 300 retired British sold ...

(i.e. a resident), on the basis they have found themselves in a time of need and are "of good character". They must not, however, have any dependent spouse or family and former Officers must have served at least 12 years in the ranks before receiving a commission. The site for the Royal Hospital was an area of

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which held an incomplete building "Chelsey College", a theological college

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founded in 1609. The Royal Hospital opened its doors to the

Chelsea Pensioners A Chelsea Pensioner, or In-Pensioner, is a resident at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, a retirement home and nursing home for former members of the British Army located in Chelsea, London. The Royal Hospital Chelsea is home to 300 retired British sol ...

in 1692 for "the relief and succour" of veterans. Some of the first soldiers admitted included those injured at the

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. The hospital maintains a 'military-based culture which puts a premium on comradeship'. The in-pensioners are formed into three companies, each headed by a Captain of Invalids (an ex-Army officer responsible for the 'day to day welfare, management and administration' of the pensioners under his charge). There is also a Secretary who traditionally was responsible for paying the Army pensions, but today they look after the annual budget, staff, buildings and grounds. Further senior staff include the Physician & Surgeon, the Matron, the Quartermaster, the Chaplain and the Adjutant. A Board of Commissioners has governed the Royal Hospital since 1702. The ex-officio chairman of the board is HM Paymaster General (whose predecessor Sir Stephen Fox was instrumental in founding the Hospital in the seventeenth century). The purpose of the Board is 'to guide the development of The Royal Hospital, ensuring the care and well-being of the Chelsea Pensioners who live there and safeguarding the historic buildings and grounds, which it owns in trust'. Royal Hospital is also a ward of the Kensington and Chelsea Council. The population at the 2011 Census was 7,252. Greenwich Hospital was a permanent home for retired

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s of the

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, which operated from 1692 to 1869. Its buildings were later used by the

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and the

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, and are now known as the

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. The word "hospital" was used in its original sense of a place providing hospitality for those in need of it, and did not refer to medical care, although the buildings included an infirmary which, after Greenwich Hospital closed, operated as Dreadnought Seaman's Hospital until 1986. The foundation which operated the hospital still exists, for the benefit of former Royal Navy personnel and their dependants. It now provides sheltered housing on other sites. The hospital was created as the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich on the instructions of Queen Mary II, who had been inspired by the sight of wounded sailors returning from the

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in 1692. She ordered the King Charles wing of the palace—originally designed by architect John Webb for King Charles II in 1664—to be remodelled as a naval hospital to provide a counterpart for the

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for soldiers. Sir Christopher Wren and his assistant

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gave their services free of charge as architects of the new Royal Hospital. Sir John Vanbrugh succeeded Wren as architect, completing the complex to Wren's original plans. Construction was financed through an endowment, financed through the transfer of £19,500 in fines paid by merchants convicted of smuggling in 1695, a public fundraising appeal which brought in £9,000, and a £2,000 annual contribution from Treasury. In 1705 an additional £6,472 was paid into the fund, comprising the liquidated value of estates belonging to the recently hanged pirate Captain William Kidd. The first of the principal buildings constructed was the King Charles Court (the oldest part dating back to the restoration), completed in 1705. The first governor, Sir William Gifford, took up office in 1708.

United States

Federal homes

The first national veterans' home in the United States was the United States Naval Home approved in 1811 but not opened until 1834 in the

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. The Naval Home was moved to

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in 1976."US History Encyclopedia: Soldiers' Home" in Answers.com at http://www.answers.com/topic/old-soldiers-home (Retrieved 4 January 2010), and Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL), "Views of the U.S. Naval Asylum and Hospital, Philadelphia" in ''Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries'' at http://archives.pacscl.org/shows/navalhome/index.html (Retrieved 4 January 2010). It was subsequently opened to veterans of other services and is now the Gulfport Campus of the Armed Forces Retirement Home. The first Army national old soldiers' home in the U.S. was established in

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in 1851.

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founded the Soldier's Home in Washington, D.C. and another (since fallen into disuse) in Harrodsburg, Kentucky with about $118,000 in leftover proceeds of assessments on occupied Mexican towns and the sale of captured tobacco in the

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. The Old Soldier's Home, now known as the Armed Forces Retirement Home, was the site of President Lincoln's Cottage, a 34-room Gothic Revival cottage, which served as Lincoln's summer home during the

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. It is adjacent to

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, the first federal military cemetery in the United States. The Home has remained in continuous use since its establishment. It is located on a wooded campus overlooking the U.S. Capitol in the heart of Washington, D.C., three miles from the White House, and continues to serve as a retirement home for U.S. enlisted men and women. Both the Washington, D.C. and Gulfport soldiers' and sailors' homes are funded through a small monthly contribution from the pay of members of the U.S. Armed Services. Following the

the federal government increased the number of National Military Homes, and took over a few formerly state-run old soldiers' homes. By 1933 there were 17 federally managed veterans homes. All except the first two of these homes were eventually combined with other federal government agencies to become part of what is now called the

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, or U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs established in 1930.

State homes

Caring for the disabled and elderly, and the widows and orphans of men who died in the war became a concern even before the

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ended. For example, in 1864 Fitch's Home for Soldiers and Their Orphans was opened with private donations in

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. Various female benevolent societies pushed for the creation of a long-term care federal or state soldier home system at the end of the war.Trevor K. Plante, "Genealogy Notes: The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers" in ''Prologue Magazine nline' Spring 2004, Vol. 36, No. 1 at https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2004/spring/soldiers-home.html (Retrieved 17 December 2009). Large veterans organizations like the

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and United Confederate Veterans eventually also worked for the creation of federal and state homes to care for disabled or elderly veterans. In a few cases veterans organizations on their own raised the money to buy property and build veterans homes. Most of these were quickly turned over to the state government to fund and manage. The majority of state legislatures established veterans homes paid for by state monies from the start. 43 states managed 55 functioning state veterans homes before 1933. Fourteen of those states also had a federal veterans home open at the same time as their state veterans home. Eleven states had two or more state veterans homes in operation at the same time (two of which also had a federal home). Some states simply had several homes at once. A few states admitted veterans' widows, and a few other states established separate homes for the widows and orphans. A few states had separate

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and Confederate old soldiers' homes. The first of 16 Confederate homes was opened in 1881 in Georgetown, Kentucky. Confederate soldiers' homes were supported entirely by subscribers or by the states, with no funds from the federal government against which the Confederates had fought. A few state-run old soldiers' homes were eventually folded into the federal veterans home system. As their last few Civil War veterans were dying in the 1930s, some states chose to close their old soldiers' homes, and other states began admission of veterans from more recent wars. Several of these state old soldiers' homes have been modernized and stop serve veterans.

City homes

Soldier homes in major cities were among the earliest, usually starting more as hotels for men passing through town, but increasingly taking on disabled servicemen. These were usually operated as paying businesses rather than being fully funded by the government.

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had two soldiers' homes which were associated with nearby

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and got their start as a part of the refreshment and lodging business. Women activists also helped establish disabled soldiers' homes in

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, and

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, or in conjunction with the U.S. Sanitary Commission in 25 other cities. The Boston home closed in 1869, the Philadelphia homes closed in 1872, the Chicago Soldiers' Home lasted until 1877, and Milwaukee turned into a federal home.

US Sanitary Commission homes, lodges, and rest

During the Civil War, the US Sanitary Commission provided Union servicemen " mporary aid and protection,—food, lodging, care, etc.,—for soldiers in transitn ic chiefly the discharged, disabled, and furloughed." By 1865 the Commission operated 18 "soldiers' homes," 11 "lodges," and one "rest" in 15 states north and south (for a list se
Commission bulletin, 3:1279
. Most of their homes were war-time facilities and were closed at war's end. They are not included in the following list.

List of historic old soldiers' and sailors' homes in the United States

(By state) *

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a.k.a. Jefferson Manly Falkner Soldiers' Home,

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* Tuskegee Home a.k.a. Veterans Administration Hospital and Nursing Home,

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*Arkansas Confederate Soldiers' Home, Sweet Home, Arkansas * Los Angeles Disabled Veterans Home a.k.a. Pacific Branch National Military Home, Sawtelle,

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, California * Veterans Home of California Yountville, Yountville, California *Colorado State Soldiers and Sailors Home, Homelake, Colorado *Fitch's Home for Soldiers and Their Orphans,

Darien, Connecticut Darien ( ) is a coastal town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. With a population of 21,499 and a land area of just under 13 square miles, it is the smallest town on Connecticut's Gold Coast. It has the youngest population of any ...

* United States Soldiers' Home a.k.a. Armed Forces Retirement Home,

*Florida Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home,

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*St. Petersburg ationalHome (Bay Pines), St. Petersburg, Florida * Confederate Soldiers' Home a.k.a. Georgia Soldiers' Home,

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, Georgia *Idaho State Soldiers Home,

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, Illinois *Danville Branch National Military Home,

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Ancestry.com, "U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866–1938" in Ancestry.com at http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1200 (Retrieved 29 December 2009). *Logan Home a.k.a. Maywood Home for Soldiers' Widows,

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*Illinois Soldiers and Sailors Home a.k.a. Illinois Veterans Home, Quincy, Illinois *Soldiers' Widows' Home, Wilmington, Illinois * Marion Branch National Military Home, Marion, Indiana *Indiana State Soldiers Home,

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*Iowa Veterans Home, Marshalltown, Iowa * Kansas Soldiers' Home,

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*Kansas State Soldiers' Home a.k.a. Western Branch National Military Home, Leavenworth, Kansas *Confederate Soldiers' Home and Widows' and Orphans' Asylum,

Georgetown, Kentucky Georgetown is a home rule-class city in Scott County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 37,086 at the 2020 census. It is the 6th-largest city by population in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is the seat of its county. It was original ...

* Kentucky Confederate Soldiers' Home,

Pewee Valley, Kentucky Pewee Valley is a home rule-class city in Oldham County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 1,456 at the 2010 census. History The site of present-day Pewee Valley was first settled as a stop on the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad in 1 ...

*Soldiers' Home at Harrodsburg, Kentucky *Soldiers' Home of Louisiana a.k.a. Camp Nicholls Soldier's Home,

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, Louisiana * Eastern Branch National Military Home, Togus, Maine *Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers' Home, Pikesville, Maryland *Discharged Soldiers' Home,

, Massachusetts *Soldiers' Home, Chelsea, Massachusetts *

, Holyoke, Massachusetts *Grand Rapids Home for Veterans,

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Minnesota Veterans Home The Minnesota Soldiers' Home, later known as the Minnesota Veterans Home in Minneapolis, is an old soldiers' home near Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota. History After the American Civil War and the devastation that it caused, there wa ...

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, Minnesota * Beauvoir Confederate Soldiers' Home a.k.a. Jefferson Davis Beauvoir Memorial Soldiers' Home,

Biloxi, Mississippi Biloxi ( ; ) is a city in and one of two county seats of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States (the other being the adjacent city of Gulfport). The 2010 United States Census recorded the population as 44,054 and in 2019 the estimated popu ...

* Biloxi Home ational Homea.k.a. VA Medical Center,

* Missouri Confederate Home, Higginsville, Missouri *Missouri State Federal Soldiers' Home, St. James, MissouriNational Archives, "The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers-State Run Homes (in 1922)," in ''Prologue Magazine'' Spring 2004, Vol. 36, No. 1 at https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2004/spring/nhdvs-sidebar3.html (Retrieved 25 November 2009). *Montana State Soldiers' Home, Columbia Falls, Montana *Soldiers and Sailors' Home, Grand Island, Nebraska *Soldiers and Sailors' Home,

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*New Hampshire Soldiers' Home,

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* Home for Disabled Soldiers,

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*Home for Disabled Soldiers,

Newark, New Jersey Newark ( , ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County and the second largest city within the New York metropolitan area.Vineland, New Jersey * New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home a.k.a. Bath Branch National Military Home,

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* State Women's Relief Corps Home a.k.a. New York State Veterans Home,

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*Confederate Woman's Home, Fayetteville, North Carolina *North Carolina Soldiers' Home,

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*Soldiers Home,

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Central Branch National Soldiers' Home, Dayton, Ohio
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, Oklahoma *Oregon State Soldiers' Home a.k.a. Roseburg Branch National Military Home, Roseburg, Oregon *Soldiers' and Sailors' Home,

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*Cooper Shop Soldiers' Home,

, Pennsylvania *Soldiers' Home of Philadelphia,

, Pennsylvania * United States Naval Home,

, Pennsylvania *Rhode Island Soldiers' Home,

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*Confederate Home for Soldiers and Sailors a.k.a. South Carolina Confederate Infirmary,

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*Battle Mountain Sanitarium National Military Home,

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*South Dakota State Soldiers' Home a.k.a. Michael J. Fitzmaurice Veterans Home,

Mountain Branch National Military Home, Johnson City, Tennessee
ref name="Ancestry"/> *Confederate Soldiers' Home a.k.a. Tennessee Soldiers' Home, Hermitage (Nashville), Tennessee *Texas Confederate Home for Men,

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*Texas Confederate Woman's Home, north of

*Vermont Soldiers' Home,

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*Southern Branch National Military Home, Hampton, Virginia *Virginia Confederate Soldiers' Home a.k.a. Lee Camp Soldiers' Home, Richmond, Virginia * Washington State Soldiers' Home, and Washington State Soldiers' Colony,

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*Washington Veterans' Home, Retsil, Washington *Grand Army Home, a.k.a. Wisconsin Veterans' Home,

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* Milwaukee Soldiers Home, in the Milwaukee Soldiers Home

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District— Northwestern Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District, on the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center grounds in

, Wisconsin. The most intact Soldiers Home in the country and the only one with the majority of its surrounding recuperative village remaining. *Wyoming State Home for Soldiers and Sailors,

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(1895–1903), It was relocated to

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in 1903, where it continues to serve in the present day.Mary and Don Saban, "Fort McKinney" in ''U.S. Army Frontier Posts in Wyoming'' at http://genealogyalongtherockies.com/wyoming/Veterans/wyarmy.htm (Retrieved 16 December 2009), and Grace Raymond Hebard,
Government of Wyoming: The History, Constitution, and Administration of Affairs, 8th ed.
' (San Francisco, Calif.: C.F. Weber, 1919; Digitized by Google Books), page 265 footnote (a).

References

External links

Armed Forces Retirement Home(s)National Association of County Veterans Service OfficersNational Association of State Veterans Homes
*VA's explanation of long term care availability
VA Long Term Care Services
*Federal Benefits for Veterans, Dependents and Survivor, Chapter 1 VA Health Care Benefits, section o
Nursing Home Care
*The VA has a section of its website devoted t
geriatrics
which includes information about long term care options *P.J. Budahn,
Veteran's Guide to Benefits, 4th ed.
' (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2005; Digitized by Google Books), 193–240.

(scroll down for the list) (site charges fees for pension information: alternatively browse the VA's page explaining th

State Veterans Homes with Approved Sharing AgreementsLocating Old Soldiers Home Records
in the United States before World War II, showing the name of each home, years of operation, some Internet links to related sites, and in some cases the known manuscript collections of their records.
Home For Heroes
Documentary produced by Twin Cities Public Television
The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
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