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On the Mall:
While the AFIP was emerging, the Medical Museum became one of the most popular sites in Washington, receiving between 450,000 and 765,000 visitors each year in the 1960s. Although it occupied several different buildings in the years after its founding, the Museum spent most of its history at the Army Medical Museum Building, known as the "Old Red Brick." Located on the corner of Independence and 7th St, SW, the Old Red Brick was built in 1887 and housed the Museum for eighty years. In 1962, the building received National Historic Landmark status, but the designation was transferred to the Museum collections when the Old Red Brick was demolished in 1968 to make way for the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The Medical Museum then rejoined the AFIP at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. |