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In the 1930s, the
facilities for animal research at the NIH campus at 25th and E
Streets, N.W., in Washington, DC, were becoming strained. The NIH and PHS
leadership were thus receptive to the offer by Luke I. Wilson to donate his
Bethesda estate to the federal government. When Dr. Thomas Parran became
Surgeon General, he and his choice for NIH director, Dr. Lewis R. Thompson,
decided to rebuild the entire NIH campus in Bethesda to allow room for
expansion. The laboratories moved as their buildings were completed between
1938 and 1941. In October 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the
campus. |