Jan. 10, 1999. The CC's main entrance flipped to the south and the familiar front door on Center Drive closed forever. The section of Center Drive that runs between Convent and Memorial Drives will also closed that day. A new Center Drive, which loops around the construction site, takes its place. Jan. 11, 1999.
New entrance opens.
The ceremony gathered together an array of individuals, including employees, department heads, Board members, architects and construction workers. They all came to commemorate in the words of NIH Director Dr. Harold Varmus, the pathway. After many months of confusion on this side of the building we can now get to work seriously on the CRC of the other side of the building. Many attendees of the ceremony marveled at the likeness that the new entrance has to the one of several decades ago and were in awe at the grandness of the bright, open space. National Institutes of Health, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.