Sawtelle Veterans Home
This legislation, one of the last Acts signed by President Lincoln, marked the entrance of the United States into the direct provision of care for the temporary versus career military.While the Managers included, ex-officio, the President of the United States, the Secretary of War and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, it was not a part of the Executive branch of government.In 1900 admission was extended to all honorably discharged officers, soldiers and sailors who served in regular or volunteer forces of the United States in any war in which the country had been engaged and who were disabled, who had no adequate means of support and were incapable of earning a living.[2] Due to increased demand as a result of widening of admission standards, in 1887 Congress approved the establishment of a Pacific Branch of the Home.In 1904, Los Angeles Pacific Railroad's branch became a stop on the Balloon Route[12][13] – a popular tour of local attractions conducted by an entrepreneur who escorted tourists via a rented streetcar.In 1905, residential lots and larger tracts in the new Westgate Subdivision, which joined “the beautiful Soldier's Home”, and which was owned and promoted by Jones and Baker's Santa Monica Land and Water Company, were for sale.The development of medical facilities for veterans during the 1920s fueled a burst of construction during that decade, including Colonial Revival staff residences.
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