Letterman General Hospital (San Francisco, Calif.)

found: Browne, C. Body shop, 1987:CIP galley (Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco)

found: California State Medical Museum Web site, Mar. 18, 2010(historic California posts, camps, and stations: Letterman Army Medical Center; Major Jonathan Letterman, after whom the hospital at the Presidio was renamed in 1911, was the medical director of the Army of the Potomac; U.S. Army General Hospital at the Presidio of San Francisco built between 1899 and 1902; by 1921, Letterman hospital had 56 permanent buildings and 29 temporary ones; in 1969 a 10-story, 550-bed, reinforced concrete facility opened on the site: the new Letterman Army Medical Center; deactivated in 1995; on Dec. 1, 1898, the War Department published General Orders 182 establishing the U.S. Army General Hospital; named (Letterman General Hospital) in honor of the late army surgeon Maj. Jonathan Letterman, 1911; in Aug. 1944 "Dante Station Hospital" merged with Letterman; Letterman Army Hospital; new hospital construction completed fall 1968; named the Letterman Army Medical Center (LAMC) in 1973; ceremony marking the inactivation of the Letterman Army Medical Center and its conversion to the Letterman U.S. Army Hospital was held on June 8, 1991; on June 2, 1993 a ceremony marked the end of Letterman's service as an army hospital and the beginning of the Letterman U.S. Army Health Clinic; on June 30, 1995, the Health Clinic reduced operations and became the U.S. Army Aid Station; on August 1, 1995, the aid station closed its doors)