Army Medical Museum and Library
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The Army Medical Museum and Library of the U.S. Army was built in 1887 at Independence Avenue and 7th Street, SW Washington, DC, which is on the National Mall. It was designed and built by Dr. John Shaw Billings to house the Army Medical Museum, the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, and some of the Army's medical records. Between 1893 and 1910, it also housed the Army Medical School.
The Museum and the Library remained on the Mall until the 1960s, when they were moved to their present separate locations. The old building (known affectionately as "Old Red") was razed and replaced by the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
[edit] Successor Institutions
The Army Medical Museum evolved into the present Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) and the National Museum of Health and Medicine, both now in the same building on the campus of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) in northern Washington, D.C. The Library of Surgeon General's Office became the present National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland.
