U.S. Government
In 1942, the United States Army, which had bought the complex, converted the buildings into the Percy Jones Army Hospital for treating soldiers wounded in World War II, and later, the Korean War. In 1954, the U.S. General Services Administration then took it over as the Battle Creek Federal Center and began housing federal agencies and activities, including a GSA Property and Administrative Services, the Defense Logistics Information Service (DLIS), the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS), and the Defense Logistics Agency Systems Integration Office (DSIO-J), among others.
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