[CPEO-IRF] Walter Reed Hospital's "Storied Halls"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
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