Loma Linda University Health: The New Towers of Healing on the Dennis and Carol Troesh Medical Campus

2015 – 2021 Highlights

The featured image is a nightscape of the new towers of Healing that rise above the Dennis and Carol troesh Medical campus.

In the coming days, this blog will continue to add images of the high points of the various construction phases of the new hospitals on the Dennis and Carol Troesh Medical Campus built upon the land which was once an orange orchard from whence each year, the sweet aroma of orange blossoms wafted over the campus.

The Beginning

The above article was published in the Spring 2021 *Alumni JOURNAL*, Alumni Association. School of Medicine of Loma Linda University.

The “Come Unto Me” Statues were relocated in a garden just east of the Galleria and Main Entrance Canopy.

The Original Towers of Healing: The Clover-leaf Towers

In 1962, in the middle of what was once a citrus grove a mass excavation was undertaken to make the building pad and foundation for a nine-story hospital.

An Aerial View of the Cloverleaf towers rising out of the podium. Circa 1963

With the cloverleaf towers topped off, work shifts to the interior phase. Circa 1967

An early 1970s photo of the new Loma Linda University Hospital.

A Portraiture of What Will Be

May 22, 2016: The Ground Breaking

Make Ready

The Demolition of the Mary ‘M’ Apartments

A closeup of the western unit. The debris from the first demolition will be trucked away before work can begin on the building to the right.

Widening Prospect Avenue

Dennis E. Park, MA

After graduate school Dennis accepted a position at Loma Linda University. He worked there for 42 years in the areas of administration and financial management, also teaching accounting and management to dietetic students at the School of Public Health. Through the years Dennis has chronicled the growth of the campus, including the construction of the Drayson Center and the Centennial Complex and the razing of Gentry Gym. He is the author of "The Mound City Chronicles: A Pictorial History of Loma Linda University, A Health Sciences Institution 1905 - 2005." dEp 09.30.2016 🔨

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