Parkland Hospital

The name came from land meant for a park. The hospital that opened in May 1894 in a wooden building at Oak Lawn and Maple became Parkland because its grounds were bought by the city for a park. The 1913 brick building, the first brick hospital in Texas, was designed by Hubbell and Greene. After Parkland moved in 1954, the old hospital kept treating asthma, tuberculosis and emphysema until 1974, then served the sheriff as a work-release jail and trained Dallas police and fire recruits. Crow Holdings redeveloped it as offices and residences from 2006.

What the plaque says

Parkland Hospital Dallas first opened a city hospital on Lamar street in 1874, moving to Maple Avenue in the 1890s. In 1913, a new state of the art facility was erected, reflecting a nationwide movement toward modern medical care. The new building was the source of development for the neighborhood as a medical center and also the first home to Southwestern Medical College (now the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School). In 1954, Parkland Hospital relocated to a new facility at 5201 Harry Hines Blvd, where it set standards in healthcare and in medical advances. On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was taken to that facility following his assassination. Today, Parkland Hospital continues to be a leader in providing medical care to the needy. (2010)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dallas Museum of Art — 1.5 mi
  A city art museum that began as the Dallas Art Association in 1903, grew up in Fair Park, and has stood in the Arts District since 1984 under a forty-foot barrel vault.
• The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza — 1.8 mi
  A plow-company warehouse of 1903, identified by the Warren Commission as the building Oswald fired from, now a museum on its sixth and seventh floors above Dealey Plaza.
• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — 2.7 mi
  Dallas's first city park, laid out around Browder's Spring in 1876, now a museum of historic buildings moved here from across North Texas, among them Millermore, a cotton planter's mansion.
• African American Museum, Dallas — 3.4 mi
  Founded in 1974 at Bishop College, a free Fair Park museum holding the Sepia photograph archive, African art and A. Maceo Smith's papers, and the story of the Hall of Negro Life.

More markers nearby

• Pediatric Orthopedic Care in Texas — steps away
• Oaklawn United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi
• The Crossroads — 0.5 mi
• Thomas L. Bradford — 0.7 mi