Army Medical Museum and Library

Army Medical Museum and Library
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Location	Demolished (Formerly, South B Street [now Independence Avenue] and 7th Street, SW, Washington, D.C.)
Built	1887
Architect	Adolf Cluss
NRHP Reference #	66000854
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1966
Designated NHL	January 12, 1965

The AMML in 1969.

Library Hall at the AMML; Dr John Shaw Billings (1838–1913) sits at a table on the right; Photo ca. 1890.

The Army Medical Museum and Library (AMML) of the U.S. Army was a large brick building constructed in 1887 at South B Street (now Independence Avenue) and 7th Street, SW, Washington, D.C., USA, which is directly on the National Mall. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, but, notwithstanding, was demolished in 1969.

History

The AMML was designed by German-born architect Adolf Cluss (1825–1905) to house the Army Medical Museum, the Library of the Surgeon General's Office (later called the Army Medical Library), and some of the Army's medical records. Between 1893 and 1910, it also housed the Army Medical School. The AMML remained on the Mall until the 1960s, when the Museum and Library were moved to their present separate locations. The old building (known affectionately as "Old Red" or "The Old Pickle Factory") was razed and replaced by the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1969.

Successor institutions

• The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) was located on the campus of Walter Reed Army Medical Center from February 1955 until its disestablishment on May 15, 2011
• The National Museum of Health and Medicine, located in Forest Glen Annex of Fort Detrick Silver spring, Maryland beginning September 15, 2011. It is now part of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.
• The Library of Surgeon General's Office, after various name changes (Army Medical Library, Armed Forces Medical Library) became the National Library of Medicine (NLM) — then a part of the U.S. Public Health Service — in 1956. The NLM moved to the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland in 1961.

See also

• United States Army Medical Department Museum
• National Museum of the United States Army#Other Army museums

External links

• Photograph of "Old Red" on the National Mall
• NRHP Inventory - Nomination Form ("Army Medical Museum and Library")