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Saying good-bye to a landmark

Editor's note: This feature is brought to you by the Laboratory's Archives and Research Center.

If you work at the west side of the Laboratory’s main site near East Avenue, you may have noticed demolition activities of a building that’s been part of the landscape since the Lab’s inception and before.

Bldg. 212 was built in 1943 as a drill hall when the site was a U.S. Naval Air Station. When the site became the Laboratory in the early 1950s, the building was renovated into laboratory space. During its time, Bldg. 212 has housed the earliest magnetic mirror machines, as well as several research accelerators and a cyclotron.

April 4, 2008