This photo illustration of the rear entrance to Building 59 on the Fort Myer portion of Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall blends an undated, black and white image of the building and a color image of the same structure taken April 14. Although the building currently serves as the headquarters building for the joint base, it was built in 1895 as the post hospital and consisted of a two-building structure, complete with a garage for ambulances. According to retired JBM-HH Historian Kim Holien, 1st Lt. Thomas Selfridge, for which JBM-HH’s Selfridge Gate is named, died in this building in 1908 after an airplane crash with Orville Wright during a flight demonstration on the post. Wright survived, but spent six weeks in this building recovering from broken bones. Gen. George Patton received medical treatment in this building as did all U.S. Army chiefs of staff until the late 1960s when the Andrew Rader U.S. Army Health Clinic was built. The road that leads from Jackson Avenue along the rear of the historic quarters along Lee Avenue and into where the hospital’s garage was located (now a parking lot on the north side of the building) is appropriately named Hospital Lane. Although the appearance of the building has changed through renovations over the years, the building is recognizable in most historic images dating back more than 100 years. (Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall PAO Photo Illustration by Helen Klein)
| Date Taken: | 04.14.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 04.16.2015 19:15 |
| Photo ID: | 1878339 |
| VIRIN: | 150414-A-DZ999-137 |
| Resolution: | 2727x2164 |
| Size: | 931.76 KB |
| Location: | JOINT BASE MYER-HENDERSON HALL, VA, US |
| Web Views: | 29 |
| Downloads: | 3 |
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