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Naval Operating Base Dutch Harbor & Fort Mears, Pyramid Valley Hospital Area, Unalaska, Aleutian Islands, AK

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Naval Operating Base Dutch Harbor & Fort Mears, Pyramid Valley Hospital Area, Unalaska, Aleutian Islands, AK

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Significance: Initially planned as a garrison, but reduction of troop strength at Fort Mears resulted in abandonment of the plan to quarter infantry and conversion of the entire area into a hospital complex was implemented. / This Pyramid Valley Hospital Ward represents the hospital constructed in 1943. Sixteen wards connected by wood frame corridors, separated with fire walls, served Fort Mears. Pyramid Valley Hospital Area structures were razed 1985 in accordance with the Defense Environmental Restoration Program.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-14
Survey number: HABS AK-34-Y
Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1987 Demolished
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 85002733

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Date

1950 - 1970
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Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Office of the Quartermaster General
Jandoli, Liz, transmitter
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