Buchanan County Infirmary

3500 N. Village Dr., Saint Joseph, Missouri. County/parish: Buchanan.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 29, 2009. NRIS 08001386.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Buchanan County Poor Farm
  • Green Acres

From Wikipedia:

Buchanan County Infirmary

Buchanan County Infirmary, also known as Buchanan County Poor Farm and Green Acres, is a historic hospital building located in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States. It was built in 1919, and is a two-story, F-shaped Classical Revival-style building with a "fireproof' concrete structure, brick walls, and a cross-hip roof clad with red ceramic tiles. It features a central porch with four full-height concrete Doric order columns that support a projecting, pedimented roof. It is the last surviving structure of the Buchanan County Poor Farm.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63818413