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SENIOR
MILITARY COMMANDS AND COMMANDERS AT QUARRY HEIGHTS
ANCON
HILL HISTORY - OCCUPANTS
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Quarry
Heights -- History (Continued)
POST WORLD WAR II CONSTRUCTION ERA
(1946-1994)
| Construction of Montague Hall (Building 88), the
headquarters building for the Caribbean Command and its successor the
Southern Command, was completed in May 1956 and dedicated in April 1958. It was named in
honor of Lieutenant General Robert M. Montague who died in February 1958
while serving as Commander in Chief of the Caribbean Command. It was built
of reinforced concrete. (It is
not known when the old command headquarters building was demolished.) |
Building 88
(Montague Hall) across the street facing the Tunnel (in center of
photo) was completed in 1956
and inaugurated 1958
as the new headquarters building. Shown in upper level ledge in
background is noncommissioned housing units. [1980s U.S. Army
photo]
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 Building 88
(Montague Hall) -- end stair case added in 1980s [From SouthCom's
Dialogo magazine]
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Montague
Hall - shown in 1990s; view from Webber parade field. (Bldg 150 in
background) Montague Hall housed the Command Group
of the
Headquarters staff of the Caribbean Command, then from 1963 the
U.S. Southern Command until September 27, 1997, when the command
headquarters moved to Miami. [From Southern Command's Dialogo magazine]
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Montague
Hall (Building 88) shown September 27, 1997, the day the Headquarters,
U.S. Southern Command departed Panama to its new home in Miami,
Florida. [Photo by WHO, Sept 1997] |
Andrews Hall
(Building 83) was completed in 1963 and named in honor of Lieutenant General
Frank M. Andrews, Commanding General of the Caribbean Defense Command
1941-1942. [From History of
Quarry Heights pamphlet]
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Andrews Hall
(Building 83 in background) in 1997. Shown on left is part of the Post Office,
part of Building 84. [Photo by WHO, Sept 1997]
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In 1968 the Parade Field at
Quarry Heights (adjacent to Montague Hall) was renamed and dedicated in
memory of Colonel John D. Webber, U.S. Army, who had served at Quarry
Heights as Southern Command Deputy Director of Logistics June 1964 to
October 1966. Colonel Webber was assassinated in Guatemala City on January
16, 1968, while serving as the commander of the U.S. Military Group in
Guatemala.
Morgan Avenue housing, at the base of
Ancon Hill directly below Quarry Heights and adjacent to Balboa townsite, was added as required military
housing to the Quarry Heights Military Reservation in 1963. Additional
housing was constructed on Morgan Avenue in the late 1960s and early
1970s.
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Typical of the
two-family houses on Morgan Avenue, below Quarry Heights.
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