Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Building 837 Torn Down

SMSgt (Ret.) Mark Guest wrote that Building 837, which for decades served as Security Police Headquarters and Operations, and was named in honor of TSgt Thomas L. Campbell, has been torn down. The first image below (via Google) shows it standing (perhaps in early 2009). The second image (via Yahoo) shows it torn down. The third image at the bottom, shows Maxwell Field prior to WW II, and one can almost discern Building 837.

Details on exactly when Building 837 was demolished, and where the portrait of Tom Campbell has been moved to, are unknown as of this posting.

01/13/2010 - Update - Gene Cody related that the portrait of Tom Campbell is on display in the entry hall of the "new" 42nd SFS Building.

Two other large buildings directly across Maxwell Boulevard on the south side have also been torn down (one was a recreation center, the other housed a post office). The new 42nd Security Forces Squadron building is located at 130 W. Selfridge.


Building 837 (perhaps early 2009)
(image ©2009 Google - Imagery; ©2009 DigitalGlobe, GeoEye, U.S. Geological Survey)


Maxwell Boulevard with three buildings gone (perhaps late 2009)
(image ©2009 Yahoo! Inc.)


(official U.S. government photo)
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  1. AnonymousMay 6, 2011 at 3:02 AM

    By TSgt Christopher Barker
    I was stationed there 98-03 and became K9 there. That small building behind the old SF Bldg was the kennels. The runs were all outdoors for the dogs. After they built the new kennels I was there for maybe a 1yr and then left. Sometime after I left they demolished both the kennels and the old SF Bldg. There was talks of making it a Bldg you could not destroy (historical). But guess they wanted some pretty grass in there places.

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