[1][6] In 1981, the Public Health Service Hospital shut down because of budget cuts.

[7] Between 1982 and 1988, the buildings housed the San Francisco branch of the Defense Language Institute.

It was closed in December 1988, and all remaining students were moved to Monterey, with plans to sell the hospital to the city of San Francisco.

In the following years, the building remained empty, and became popular with squatters, graffiti artists and ghost hunters who were attracted by the allegedly haunted former morgue and operating rooms.

[7] The historic 1932 modernist building was converted and rehabilitated for housing, and opened in 2010 as the Presidio Landmark apartments.