Since then the location has been used by the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services to house developmentally disabled adults.
[2] During the World War II, the only major development in Shoreline was the Naval Hospital.
Joel Thompson Boone, a United States Navy officer, was the hospital's commandant.
Eleanor Roosevelt, the first lady of the United States, visited the hospital several times to encourage the wounded.
In 1947, the hospital was transferred to King County and after a few years the original buildings were destroyed.