Letterman Army Hospital - World War I - San Francisco, CA - Field Hospitals on Waymarking.com

The 300 bed hospital was designed by W.H. Wilcox of San Francisco. The pavilion styled building were built around a green area in San Francisco's presidio. The construction took places between 1899 and 1902. The hospital house many new technologies for that time - including x-rays. It was also the first army general hospital to employ women. In 1911 the facility was renamed the Letterman General Hospital, named after the Union Army’s Surgeon General, Dr. Jonathon Letterman.
The hospital was used during WWI, caring for 18,000 soldiers. During WWII, the hospital was used to treat soldiers returning from the Pacific. 73,000 were treated at Letterman during 1945.
In the early 200s, the hospital was demolished after the land became part of the National Parks Service. The Letterman Digital Arts Center was built on the site. The buildings house many of director George Luca's companies including, Industrial Light & Magic and LucasArt. The building were built to resemble the original hospital. Source: NPS

Address: 1110 Gorgas Ave San Francisco, CA 94129 Name of War: World War I Type of Documentation: Web Page/Historical Documentation

Visit Instructions:
Take an original pic and write something interesting.

Recent Visits/Logs:

Date Logged Log   08/04/2013 tatie visited it 08/25/2012 petendot visited it 10/09/2011 Tprints visited it 02/17/2011 JacobBarlow visited it 12/29/2010 Queens Blessing visited it 12/29/2010 ornith visited it

View all visits/logs