2006 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 15 Jan 2006 07:14:08 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Walter Reed Hospital's "Storied Halls"
 
A Hospital's Storied Halls
Relics of Walter Reed's Famed Patients Face Uncertain Fate

By Michael E. Ruane
Washington Post
January 15, 2006

Along these hospital halls shuffled the aging heroes of the 20th century.

The octogenarian World War I Gen. John J. Pershing set up house here in a wood-paneled suite overlooking a garden of roses and secretly married his longtime French-Romanian lover two years before he died.

...

In the summer, the federal Base Closure and Realignment Commission recommended that the hospital be shut down and that many of its functions be merged with those of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. Walter Reed has been on Georgia Avenue in Northwest Washington since 1909.

The recommendations became law in November. City and hospital officials don't know what will become of the 113-acre, 73-building complex, including the original hospital structure, which now houses offices, and the current 1970s-era hospital building. Other federal agencies have until tomorrow to declare interest, and the District says it will help come up with ideas for redeveloping the site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/14/AR2006011401099.html

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Lenny Siegel
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