Indiana State Soldiers Home Historic District is a historic

Soldiers Home 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, sailors, and marines, etc. United Kingdom In the United Kingd ...

and national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...

located in Tippecanoe Township and Wabash Township,

Tippecanoe County, Indiana Tippecanoe County ( ) is a county located in the west-central portion of the U.S. state of Indiana about east of the Illinois state line, less than from the Indianapolis metro area, and from Chicago. As of the 2020 census, the population wa ...

. The district encompasses four contributing buildings on the campus of the former Soldiers Home. They are the Post Exchange, Commandant's House, Library Building (formerly the Commissary), and the Administration Building. Funding for the home was approved by the Indiana State Legislature in 1888, and building commenced in 1890. Most of the original buildings were demolished in the 1950s. ''Note:'' This includes
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and Accompanying photographs The property continued to be administered by the Indiana Department of Veterans' Affairs as the Indiana Veterans’ HomeOfficial Website of the Indiana Veterans’ Home
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in 1974.

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Veterans' hospitals Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Historic districts in Tippecanoe County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Tippecanoe County, Indiana Military hospitals in the United States {{TippecanoeCountyIN-NRHP-stub