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LOCATION AND PROPERTY NAME
address:8495 Crater Lake Hwy historic name:Camp White Station Hospital Administration Building
White City, Jackson County (97503) current/other names:Building 200; Camp White Military Hospital; Administration Building (Admin & Receiving Bldg, Type HAR-1)
assoc addresses:Hwy 62; Veterans Memorial Drive
block/lot/tax lot: / 800
location descr: twnshp/rng/sect/qtr sect:36S 1W 17
PROPERTY CHARACTERISTICS
resource type:Building height (stories):2.0 total elig resources:1 total inelig resources:0
elig evaluation: eligible/significant NR Status: Individually Listed
prim constr date:1942 second date: date indiv listed:12/20/2016
primary orig use: Military Facility orig use comments:
second orig use: Administrative Facility
primary style: Late 19th/20th Period Revivals: Other prim style comments:Series 800 US Army Cantonment Structure
secondary style: Colonial Revival sec style comments:
primary siding: Standard Brick siding comments:
secondary siding: Wood:Other/Undefined
plan type: architect:Hunt, Myron
builder:Contractors Medford Cantonment (CMC)
comments/notes:
Formally located facing landscaped area on north side of Veterans Memorial Road.
GROUPINGS / ASSOCIATIONS
Survey/Grouping Included In: Type of Grouping Date Listed Date Compiled
   Camp White-VA Survey 2007 Survey & Inventory Project 2007
Farmstead/Cluster Name:Camp White
SHPO INFORMATION FOR THIS PROPERTY
NR date listed: 12/20/2016
ILS survey date: 03/01/2007
RLS survey date: 03/01/2007
106 Project(s): None
Special Assess Project(s): None
Federal Tax Project(s): None
ARCHITECTURAL / PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
(Includes expanded description of the building/property, setting, significant landscape features, outbuildings and alterations)
The Camp White Station Hospital Administration Building (Building 200) is located in White City, Jackson County, Oregon, at the Department of Veterans Affairs Southern Oregon Rehabilitation Center and Clinics. Built in 1942 to house hospital administration associated with the development of US Army Camp George A. White, the Administration Building is a two-story, masonry structure prominently located within the original gridded system of connected buildings that were built as part of the Camp White development. Modified for use by the Department of Veterans Affairs following post-World War II conversion of the station hospital into the Veterans Administration (VA) Domiciliary at White City in 1949, the Administration Building largely continues its original office/administration functions and retains substantial integrity with respect to its original design. The Camp White Station Hospital Administration Building is strongly associated with the history and development of Camp White in southern Oregon during the World War II era and the subsequent development of the Veterans Affairs Domiciliary, White City, both significant events in the history of Jackson County, Oregon. The Administration Building qualifies for listing on the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A, for its association with the history of Camp White and the VA Domiciliary between 1942 and 1949.
HISTORY
(Chronological, descriptive history of the property from its construction through at least the historic period - preferably to the present)
The Camp White Station Hospital Administration Building was constructed in 1942 as part of Camp George A. White, a US Army training cantonment built at what is today White City, Oregon. The Administration Building was transferred to what is now the US Department of Veterans Affairs in 1949, following conversion of the station hospital into the White City Domiciliary after the end of World War II. The Administration Building is the most intact structure at the former hospital and is strongly associated with the history and development of Camp White, the construction of which was a pivotal event in the history of the entire southern Oregon region. The Camp White Station Hospital Administration Building is locally significant under Criterion A for its association with Camp White and significant in the history of the Jackson County and southern Oregon.
RESEARCH INFORMATION
Title Records Census Records Property Tax Records Local Histories
Sanborn Maps Biographical Sources SHPO Files Interviews
Obituaries Newspapers State Archives Historic Photographs
City Directories Building Permits State Library
Local Library: University Library:
Historical Society:Camp White Historical Association, SOHS Other Respository:VA-SORCC Plan Vault
Bibliography:
Department of Veterans Affairs. Memorandum of Agreement Between the Department of Veterans Affairs, The Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, finalized 13-January-2012. Kramer, George. Camp White: City in the Agate Desert. White City, OR: Camp White 50th Anniversary Committee, 1992. Camp White Station Hospital [VA SORCC] Historic Resources Survey, Prepared for Department of Veterans Affairs/VA Southern Oregon Rehabilitation Center and Clinics, Project No. 692-06-17, June 2007. US Army Camp White Station Hospital-Building 250. Oregon State Historic Building Documentation, SORCC (Camp White Station Hospital/VA Domiciliary), White City, Jackson County, Oregon, prepared in Fulfilment of Stipulation 4, MOA Related to the Demolition of (multiple buildings) for the Purpose of Providing Safe and State-of-the-Art Veteran Care within a Modern Facility, January 2015. Kramer, George/Peck, Smiley, Ettlin Architects. Manual for Built Resources: A Guide to the Management and Maintenance of Historic Structures, VA Southern Oregon Rehabilitation Center and Clinics, White City, Oregon, October 2009. SORCC “Camp White Station Hospital” Request for Determination of Eligibility, December 2012 (SHPO Concurrence March 15, 2013, Case No. 07-1584). McArthur & McArthur. Oregon Geographic Names, 7th Edition. Portland, OR: OHS Press, 1983:1030. Medford Mail Tribune. Misc. issues as cited by date:page in text. Oregon Blue Book. Oregon Blue Book 1947-1948. Salem, OR: State Printing Department, 1948. Oregonian. Misc. issues as cited by date:page in text (Includes both The Morning Oregonian and The Sunday Oregonian). Wasch, Bush, et al. World War II and the US Army Mobilization Program: A History of 700 and 800 Series Cantonment Construction. USDI/National Park Service, 1992:25. Wayne Morse, telegram to Robert Ruhl, June 4, 1948, in the Sen. Wayne Morse Papers, University of Oregon Special Collections, Box 1/H3, 80th Congress, S. 1035. Wiley, Bonnie. “The Army is the Apple of the Pear City’s Eye,” Sunday Oregonian, 19-Nov-1942, Mag. Section, 6:1-8.