Battle Mountain Sanitarium

Battle Mountain Sanitarium, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark District
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Location	500 North 5th St., Hot Springs, South Dakota
Coordinates	43°26′11″N 103°28′44″W / 43.43639°N 103.47889°W / 43.43639; -103.47889
NRHP reference No.	11000561
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	June 17, 2011
Designated NHLD	June 17, 2011

The Battle Mountain Sanitarium was a division of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS) located in Hot Springs, South Dakota. Established by law in 1902 and opened in 1907, it was unique among the facilities of the NHDVS, a precursor of today's United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in that it was strictly a medical facility with no residential components beyond its treatment facilities. It was founded to treat former soldiers suffering from musculo-skeletal problems that were believed to be treatable by the region's mineral springs, and for conditions such as tuberculosis whose treatment was improved by the thin dry air. The facilities built for the sanitarium are in an architecturally distinctive Romanesque and Mission Revival style, and now form the centerpiece of the Black Hills Health Care facility, operated by the VA. Most of the complex site was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2011 for its architecture and history.^[1]