Tripler Army Medical Center

Tripler Hospital was established in 1907, housed in several wooden structures within Fort Shafter on the island of O{{okina}}ahu. 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.army.mil/article/191568/tripler_past_and_present|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810160948/https://www.army.mil/article/191568/tripler_past_and_present|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 10, 2020|title=Tripler Past and Present|website=U.S. Army|access-date=May 2, 2020}}{{cite news |date=May 19, 1959 |title=Historic 'Old Tripler' Is Demolished |page=9 |work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89514354/historic-old-tripler-is-demolished/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=November 24, 2021}}

Tripler Army Medical Center was commissioned by Lt. General Robert C. Richardson Jr., who was Military Governor of the Territory of Hawai{{okina}}i during World War II.{{cite book |title= Pacific Ocean Engineers: History of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific, 1905–1980 |date= 1985 |author= Thompson, Edwin N. |publisher= U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pacific Ocean Division|asin= B0006EJBO6 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=FZicGQuHhCUC&q=Robert%20C.%20Richardson 127]}} 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.{{cite book |title= Pacific Ocean Engineers: History of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific, 1905–1980 |date= 1985 |author= Thompson, Edwin N. |publisher= U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pacific Ocean Division|asin= B0006EJBO6 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=FZicGQuHhCUC&dq=York+%26+Sawyer+Tripler+Thompson&pg=PA153 131]}}{{cite book |title= Pacific Ocean Engineers: History of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific, 1905–1980 |date= 1985 |author= Thompson, Edwin N. |publisher= U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pacific Ocean Division|asin= B0006EJBO6 |page= [https://books.google.com/books?id=FZicGQuHhCUC&dq=York+%26+Sawyer+Tripler+Thompson&pg=PA153 153]}} 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.

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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,{{cite news |last1=Ennis |first1=Thomas |title=Building is Designer's Testament |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/11/10/90853549.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 |access-date=17 December 2023 |issue=November 10, 1957 |work=The New York Times |pages=313, 320 |quote=Seagram Building Marks Apex Of Mies van der Rohe's Career}}{{cite book |last1=Nash |first1=Eric |title=Manhattan Skyscrapers |date=1999 |publisher=Princeton Architectural Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey |isbn=1-56898-181-3 |pages=105–106 |edition=1st |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l3aAA2Di1YkC&q=seagrams |access-date=16 December 2023}} the Atlas{{cite web |last1=General Bronze Corporation |title=The General Bronze Corporation and Rene Paul Chambellan |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc2.ark:/13960/s258s75zhfq&seq=8 |website=Internet Archive, Columbia University |publisher=General Bronze Corporation |access-date=17 December 2023 |year=1946}} and Prometheus bronze sculptures in Rockefeller Center, the bronze doors for the United States Supreme Court and Commerce buildings,{{cite news |title=John Polachek, An Industrialist |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/04/18/93802563.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 |access-date=18 December 2023 |work=The New York Times |publisher=The New York Times Publishing |date=18 April 1955 |location=Obituaries |pages=22 |quote=In 1903, he became a supervisor of bronze manufacturing for Tiffany Studios. Founder of General Bronze Corporation Dies – Products Adorn Leading Buildings}} the aluminum windows for the United Nations Secretariat,{{cite journal |title=GENERAL BRONZE BUILDS THE WORLD'S LARGEST WINDOW |journal=Progressive Architecture |date=June 1950 |volume=31 |issue=6 |pages=19, 51 |url=https://usmodernist.org/PA/PA-1950-06.PDF#page=58 |access-date=21 December 2023 |publisher=Reinhold Publishing Corporation |location=New York |language=English}}{{cite book |last1=Nash |first1=Eric |title=Manhattan Skyscrapers |date=1999 |publisher=Princeton Architectural Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey |isbn=1-56898-181-3 |pages=99–100 |edition=1st |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l3aAA2Di1YkC&q=united%20nations%20secretariat |access-date=16 December 2023}}{{cite news |last1=Barrett |first1=George |title=UN Capital model shows much glass |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/09/17/87816512.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 |access-date=21 December 2023 |work=The New York Times |publisher=The New York Times Publishing |date=17 September 1947 |location=New York |pages=2 |quote=Massive Panes and Thousands of Smaller Ones Mark a Radical New Design}} Chase Manhattan Bank,{{cite web |title=ONE CHASE MANHATTAN PLAZA |url=https://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2294.pdf |website=NYC.gov |publisher=Landmarks Preservation Commission – NYC |access-date=22 December 2023 |location=New York City, NY |pages=6 |date=10 February 2009 |quote=The General Bronze Corporation engineered and manufactured the ¼ inch thick aluminum panels}}{{cite journal |last1=Tanner |first1=Ogden |last2=Allison |first2=David |last3=Blake |first3=Peter |last4=McQuade |first4=Walter |title=The Chase — Portrait of a Giant |journal=Architectural Forum |date=July 1961 |volume=115 |issue=1 |pages=66–94 |url=https://usmodernist.org/AF/AF-1961-07.pdf |access-date=22 December 2023 |quote=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}} fabricated the aluminum windows for the Tripler Army Base Hospital{{cite web |title=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 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/02/08/93041527.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 |website=The New York Times |pages=32 |language=English |date=8 February 1946 |quote=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}}

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

The installation has housing within the premises. Hawaii Department of Education operates public schools for dependent children of service members. As of 2016, zoned schools are Moanalua Elementary School, Moanalua Middle School, and Moanalua High School.{{cite web|url=https://hawaii.armymwr.com:443/application/files/9014/9327/0453/Hawaii_School_Information_SLO.pdf|title=Hawaii School Information School Year 2016-2017|publisher=Army Family and MWR Hawaii|page=4/5|access-date=2024-10-28}}

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