DeWitt General Hospital - Auburn, CA - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

"The DeWitt General Hospital was constructed in 1943 as one of the sixteen‘Type A’ pavilion plan Army hospitals in the United States designed by architects York and Sawyer. In total, there were sixty-six Army hospitals in the United States that treated American soldiers wounded in World War II.The DeWitt Hospital site contained about 220 acres and was designed to be self-contained facility originally consisting of approximately 80 buildings, a circulation system of roads, sidewalks, enclosed corridors, a steam power plant, water and sewage treatment plants and incinerator.The district consists of 49 contributing buildings, 1 contributing structure (a pool), and 5 non-contributing buildings." (visit link)

Street address: First and Bell Auburn, CA USA County / Borough / Parish: Placer Year listed: 2016 Historic (Areas of) Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering Periods of significance: 1925-1949 Historic function: Health Current function: Government Privately owned?: no Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Secondary Website 1: [Web Link] Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed Secondary Website 2: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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