Tripler Army Medical Center Explained

Tripler Army Medical Center
Org/Group:Defense Health Agency
Address:1 Jarrett White Road
Region:Honolulu
State:Hawaii
Country:U.S.
Healthcare:Tricare
Funding:Government
Type:Military hospital
Emergency:Yes
Beds:1,000
Helipad:Yes
Opened:1907
Constructed:1948 (current building)

Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) is a major United States Department of Defense medical facility administered by the United States Army in the state of Hawaii. It is the tertiary care hospital in the Pacific Rim, serving local active and retired military personnel along with residents of nine U.S. jurisdictions and forces deployed in more than 40 other countries in the region.[1] Located on the slopes of Moanalua Ridge[2] overlooking the Honolulu neighborhoods of Moanalua and Salt Lake, Tripler Army Medical Center's massive coral pink structure can be seen from any point in the Honolulu District. It also serves as headquarters of the Regional Health Command - Pacific.[3] The main hospital facility is within the Honolulu census-designated place.[4]

History

Tripler Hospital was established in 1907, housed in several wooden structures within Fort Shafter on the island of Oʻahu. In 1920 it was named after a legendary American Civil War surgeon, Brevet Brigadier General Charles Stuart Tripler (1806–1866), who made significant contributions to the development of military medicine.[5] [6]

Tripler Army Medical Center was commissioned by Lt. General Robert C. Richardson Jr., who was Military Governor of the Territory of Hawaiʻi during World War II.[7] General Richardson hired the New York City based architectural firm of York & Sawyer to design the medical complex. The local landscape architect Robert O. Thompson designed the landscape to be "one of the great beauty spots of Hawaii", although his plans were never fully realized.[8] [9] At the outbreak of World War II, Tripler Army Medical Center had a 450-bed capacity which then expanded to 1,000 beds through the addition of barracks-type buildings.

Present Day

Plans for the new Tripler Army Medical Center on Moanalua Ridge were drawn in 1942 and construction was completed in 1948. The General Bronze Corporation, known for New York City's Mies van der Rohe-designed Seagram Building,[10] [11] the Atlas[12] and Prometheus bronze sculptures in Rockefeller Center, the bronze doors for the United States Supreme Court and Commerce buildings,[13] the aluminum windows for the United Nations Secretariat,[14] [15] [16] Chase Manhattan Bank,[17] [18] fabricated the aluminum windows for the Tripler Army Base Hospital[19]

In 1959, the original hospital was demolished to make way for expansion of Moanalua Road (now Interstate H-201).[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tripler Army Medical Center, About Us. U.S. Army . Tripler Army Medical Center. August 10, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171029161948/https://www.tamc.amedd.army.mil/information/about_tamc/aboutUs.htm . October 29, 2017.
  2. Web site: Tripler Army Medical Center, Visiting Tripler. U.S. Army . Tripler Army Medical Center. August 11, 2020 .
  3. Web site: U.S. Army Medical Command Readiness, Pacific . 2022-04-22 . www.army.mil . en.
  4. Web site: 2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP (INDEX): Urban Honolulu CDP, HI . U.S. Census Bureau. 2020-10-11. - Page 4
  5. Web site: Tripler Past and Present. U.S. Army. May 2, 2020.
  6. News: May 19, 1959 . Historic 'Old Tripler' Is Demolished . 9 . . . November 24, 2021.
  7. Book: Pacific Ocean Engineers: History of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific, 1905–1980 . 1985 . Thompson, Edwin N. . U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pacific Ocean Division. B0006EJBO6 . 127.
  8. Book: Pacific Ocean Engineers: History of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific, 1905–1980 . 1985 . Thompson, Edwin N. . U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pacific Ocean Division. B0006EJBO6 . 131.
  9. Book: Pacific Ocean Engineers: History of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific, 1905–1980 . 1985 . Thompson, Edwin N. . U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pacific Ocean Division. B0006EJBO6 . 153.
  10. News: Ennis . Thomas . Building is Designer's Testament . 17 December 2023 . November 10, 1957 . The New York Times . 313, 320 . Seagram Building Marks Apex Of Mies van der Rohe's Career.
  11. Book: Nash . Eric . Manhattan Skyscrapers . 1999 . Princeton Architectural Press . Princeton, New Jersey . 1-56898-181-3 . 105–106 . 1st . 16 December 2023.
  12. Web site: Genral Bronze Corporation . The General Bronze Corporation and Rene Paul Chambellan . Internet Archive, Columbia University . General Bronze Corporation . 17 December 2023 . 1946.
  13. News: John Polachek, An Industrialist . 18 December 2023 . The New York Times . The New York Times Publishing . 18 April 1955 . Obituaries . 22 . In 1903, he became a supervisor of bronze manufacturing for Tiffany Studios. Founder of General Bronze Corporation Dies – Products Adorn Leading Buildings.
  14. GENERAL BRONZE BUILDS THE WORLD'S LARGEST WINDOW . Progressive Architecture . June 1950 . 31 . 6 . 19, 51 . 21 December 2023 . Reinhold Publishing Corporation . New York . English.
  15. Book: Nash . Eric . Manhattan Skyscrapers . 1999 . Princeton Architectural Press . Princeton, New Jersey . 1-56898-181-3 . 99–100 . 1st . 16 December 2023.
  16. News: Barrett . George . UN Capital model shows much glass . 21 December 2023 . The New York Times . The New York Times Publishing . 17 September 1947 . New York . 2 . Massive Panes and Thousands of Smaller Ones Mark a Radical New Design.
  17. Web site: ONE CHASE MANHATTAN PLAZA . NYC.gov . Landmarks Preservation Commission – NYC . 22 December 2023 . New York City, NY . 6 . 10 February 2009 . The General Bronze Corporation engineered and manufactured the ¼ inch thick aluminum panels.
  18. Tanner . Ogden . Allison . David . Blake . Peter . McQuade . Walter . The Chase — Portrait of a Giant . Architectural Forum . July 1961 . 115 . 1 . 66–94 . 22 December 2023 . Recessed flush with the inside faces of the huge aluminum-sheathed columns, the curtain wall consists of a two-tone aluminum spandrel and sill panel and an 8-foot-high window of clear glass.
  19. Web site: GENERAL BRONZE CO. IN ALUMINUM FIELD – Mass Production of Window Frames for Residential Use Throughout U.S. Started RECORD ORDER COMPLETED Includes 4,500 for New Army Hospital Under Construction on Oahu Island, Hawaii . . 32 . English . 8 February 1946 . Certain of the excellent future for aluminum window frames, the General Bronze Corporation, Long Island City, has started mass production of such items for residential use throughout the country.

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