Fitzsimons Army Medical Center
Description
Fitzsimons Army Medical Center acted as a U.S. medical post in Aurora, CO for military personnel beginning in 1918. The medical center operated as a self-sustaining institution with a permanent hospital erected in 1937, Red Cross building, and with a staff of about 5000 civilian, military, physician, and nurse personnel. While most of the Mission Revival styled buildings were torn down to make room for Anschutz Medical Campus, the army center is remembered by the Fitzsimons building hospital, the Post Chapel, guard houses, Generals Park, Colonels Row, police force in building 400s, the Fisher House, and Beehive memorial. Fitzsimons' legacy as a military teaching hospital continues with research in the Fitzsimons Hospital and the modern Anschutz Medical Campus is educating and graduating future physicians and researchers. Fitzsimons Army Medical Center officially closed in 1996 and ended as the nations' prominent military medical post during World War 1 and 2, and the Vietnam War.