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In 1964, St. Paul Hospital completed a new building at 5909 Harry Hines Blvd., across Inwood Road from the campus of Southwestern Medical School. This was the first of several new hospital buildings completed in Dallas in the 1960s.

In 1971, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School began construction of five new buildings, which would be completed in 1974. In this 1972 photo, the basement level of the Florence Building is being built directly in front of the Cary…

In 1974, after three years of construction, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas moved into this group of new buildings sourrounding an open plaza. The tall building on the left is the McDermott Administration Building. (In 1987,…

Parkland Hospital opened at the corner of Maple and Oak Lawn Avenues in 1894 with 100 beds. It replaced a 25-bed "City Hospital" serving the indigent that had opened in 1873. The new hospital was named "Parkland" because it was built on land…

Main kitchen in the St. Paul Sanitarium: Food from this kitchen was delivered by dumbwaiter in bulk to a diet kitchen on each floor, where it was prepared for delivery to patients. Dishes and silverware were stored on each floor.

Dr. John Hicks Florence stands in front of Parkland Hospital with four nurses carrying a patient just removed from a horse-drawn ambulance. Dr. Florence was the City Health Officer from 1898 to 1902. His family lived with him at Parkland, and his…

Dr. Benjamin Bluitt was the first African-American surgeon in Texas and one of the first African-Americans to practice medicine in Dallas. In 1907, he advertised his sanitarium--which had opened in 1905-- in the Dallas City Directory. (Doctor-owned…

The 18-story Medical Arts Building opened in downtown Dallas in 1922. It was one of the first skyscrapers in the world devoted to medical offices and the tallest reinforced concrete structure in Texas, with space for 400 physicians and dentists. The…

Dr. Edward H. Cary was the founder and first president of Southwestern Medical Foundation, which received a state charter in 1939 as a non-profit corporation with the purpose of perpetuating medical education and scientific research in the Southwest.…

In 1950, Baylor University Hospital opened the new Truett Building, which featured the luxuries of air conditioning and telephones in all patient rooms. With this building, Baylor became the fifth largest general hospital in the United States. The…