Keywords: Hygienic Lab at the Naval Observatory grounds.jpg In 1901 Congress appropriated funds for a new building for the Hygienic Laboratory and provided a five-acre site on the old Naval Observatory grounds at 25th and E Streets N W in Washington DC The building was completed in 1904 but soon proved too small for the quickly expanding laboratory By the time the research laboratories began the move to their present site in Bethesda Maryland in 1938 a south wing and two additional buildings had been added Exterior view of the Hygienic Laboratory located on a five-acre site on the old Naval Observatory grounds Categories NIH Places Type B W Photo Source National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIAID Date Created Unknown Date Added 8/19/2013 Reuse Restrictions None - This image is in the public domain and can be freely reused Please credit the source and/or author listed above 2012-02-16 12 30 54 National Institutes of Health NIH National Institutes of Health NIH PD-USGov National Institutes of Health Uploaded with UploadWizard |