Administration building, Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Milford
Description
The three-story light stone building in this 6" x 4" black and white plate features several balconies and a porch at the far end. In the background, a smoke stack rises behind a single story building.
Contributors
Nebraska. Board of Commissioners of State Institutions
Excerpted from: "Twelfth Biennial Report of the Commandant of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Milford, Nebraska" In Second Biennial Report of the Board of Commissioners of State Institutions to the Governor and Legislature of the State of Nebraska for the Biennium Ending November 30, 1916 (Lincoln: Nebraska Board of Commissioners of State Institutions, 1914), plate between pp. 196-197.
Historical Notes
The Administration Building was erected in 1908. At this time, residents of the home were either veterans or widows or mothers of veterans of the Civil War or veterans of the Spanish American War.
