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.

Washington, D.C.

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, USA, which is directly on the National Mall

National Mall

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. It was designated a National Historic Landmark

National Historic Landmark

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 in 1965 and added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1966, but, notwithstanding, was demolished in 1969.

History

The AMML was designed and built by Dr John Shaw Billings

John Shaw Billings

John Shaw Billings was an American librarian and surgeon best known as the modernizer of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office of the Army and as the first director of the New York Public Library.-Biography:...

 to house the Army Medical Museum

National Museum of Health and Medicine

The National Museum of Health and Medicine is a museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., USA. An element of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, the NMHM is a member of the National Health Sciences Consortium....

, the Library of the Surgeon General's Office

Library of the Surgeon General's Office

The Library of the Surgeon General's Office, later called the Army Medical Library, was the institutional medical literature repository of the U.S...

, and some of the Army's medical records. Between 1893 and 1910, it also housed the Army Medical School

Army Medical School

Founded by U.S. Army Brigadier General George Miller Sternberg, MD in 1893, the Army Medical School was by some reckonings the world's first school of public health and preventive medicine...

.

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

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., the United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft and is part of the...

 in 1969.

Successor institutions

• The Army Medical Museum evolved into the present Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
  Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
  The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology was a US government institution concerned with diagnostic consultation, education, and research in the medical specialty of pathology. It was founded in 1862 as the Army Medical Museum and was located in Washington, DC on the grounds of the Walter Reed Army...
  
   (AFIP) and the National Museum of Health and Medicine
  National Museum of Health and Medicine
  The National Museum of Health and Medicine is a museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., USA. An element of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, the NMHM is a member of the National Health Sciences Consortium....
  
  , both now in the same building on the campus of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center
  Walter Reed Army Medical Center
  The Walter Reed Army Medical Center was the United States Army's flagship medical center until 2011. Located on 113 acres in Washington, D.C., it served more than 150,000 active and retired personnel from all branches of the military...
  
   (WRAMC) in northern Washington, D.C. Along with WRAMC, it is slated to move, by 2011, to a new site in Bethesda, Maryland
  Bethesda, Maryland
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  , the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
  Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
  The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is a tri-service military medical center located on the Bethesda, Maryland, USA campus of the former National Naval Medical Center.-Leadership:Commander:Rear Admiral Alton L. Stocks, MD...
  
   (WRNMMC).

• 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
  United States Public Health Service
  The Public Health Service Act of 1944 structured the United States Public Health Service as the primary division of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare , which later became the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The PHS comprises all Agency Divisions of Health and...
  
   — in 1956. The NLM moved to the National Institutes of Health
  National Institutes of Health
  The National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...
  
   campus in Bethesda, Maryland
  Bethesda, Maryland
  Bethesda is a census designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, just northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House , which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda...
  
   in 1961.

See also

• United States Army Medical Department Museum
  United States Army Medical Department Museum
  The U.S. Army Medical Department Museum or AMEDD Museum, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, originated as part of the Army's Field Service School at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. It moved to Fort Sam Houston in 1946. It is currently a component of the U.S...
  
  
• National Museum of the United States Army#Other Army museums

External links

• Photograph of "Old Red" on the National Mall
  National Mall
  The National Mall is an open-area national park in downtown Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. The National Mall is a unit of the National Park Service , and is administered by the National Mall and Memorial Parks unit...
  
  
• NRHP Inventory - Nomination Form ("Army Medical Museum and Library")