The Fall Hill Avenue Medical Historic District is situated between Hunter Street and Bridgewater Street along Fall Hill Avenue, a popular thoroughfare between downtown Fredericksburg and across I-95 to Central Park. The district is centered on the Old Mary Washington Hospital, which spurred development along Fall Hill Avenue and functioned as Fredericksburg’s only hospital from its construction in 1949-1951 until the hospital’s operations were relocated in 1993. The International Style hospital and all its additions (1959-1961, 1968, and 1979) were designed by the Richmond-based firm Ballou and Justice, an architecture and engineering firm that completed numerous hospitals, schools, churches, shopping centers, and commercial office and government buildings in central Virginia. The other contributing resources in the district are the ca. 1958 Medical Arts Building, which housed the city’s second group of private practitioners, and the ca. 1958 office built for Dr. Walter H. Johnson, both of which were also designed in variations of the International Style. Collectively, the Fall Hill Avenue Medical Historic District represents Fredericksburg’s growth and vitality during the post-World War II era and highlights a unique focal point of Modern Architecture in a city characterized largely by traditional 19th and early 20th century Main Street Commercial and Colonial Revival buildings.