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This week, I found a historical picture of the first building on the campus! You can see the dirt/gravel around the building. Forward 80 years, and the campus has a plethora of buildings. Really amazing the expansion that has occurred here. The organization started in 1945 by the Sisters of St. Dominic of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart.
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Drove past a very unique, small, town home complex located at 7909 Knight Road in the Texas Medical Center. Photos I took today.
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This residential house is pretty interesting. It's in the middle of a large 100-acre (ish) MD Anderson campus called MD Anderson East Campus. This is one instance where the home owners refuse to sell to the company. There's a thread on HAIF somewhere dedicated the "hold outs." Pictures I took today. All of MD Anderson's vacant land a long Almeda Road.
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Love the name of this multifamily complex! 8181 Medical Center is located at 8181 Fannin Street. I stopped by last week to take a look around. The front entrance gate has a map (or site plan) of the property. Very cool, and large complex. Photos I took last week: -
This weekend, while driving to MD Anderson's East Campus, I passed the CenterPoint Energy Plaza Substation located at 7717 Almeda Road. Cool stuff here!! These (?) are oddly shaped. Any ideas what these are called, and what they are for?
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This week I discovered, what looks to be a Maurice Sullivan sketch of a proposed Houston Tuberculosis Hospital in the Texas Medical Center. This was in the year 1948 or 1949. Isn't that the Baylor College of Medicine Cullen building? I also see a small building in front of the larger building. Would the smaller building the proposed TB hospital? Or maybe that isn't the BCM Cullen Building. Very cool find.
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Medical Center National Bank (also known as Medical Center Bank) was located at 6631 Main Street in the Texas Medical Center. The bank was active in the 1960s and got swallowed up by bigger banks. Presumably, decades later, to become a JPMorgan Chase bank. The architect of the bank was Skidmore, Owings & Merrill/SOM. The bank had such a unique design that it's easy to spot on old skyline photos of the TMC. Or, when you are looking at historical aerials it's easy to spot. Here's an advertisement from 1966. A photograph of the (now demolished) bank.
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I have a request for the HAIF Historians. Does anyone have any renderings or photographs of this building? I see one, maybe two, unknown buildings but I do not want to claim it as the wrong thing. The building has since been demolished. Information from 1961: New Nurses Home To be Constructed Houston (AP) – A million dollar fortune left by a bicycle shop owner will be used to build a nurses home at the $100 million Texas Medical Center. Leland Anderson, Medical Center President, said construction of the six-story March Culmore Hall will begin immediately. Culmore died on December 12, 1952 at the age of 80. His will left the bulk of his estate to a trust fund for construction of the nurses home.
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The (now demolished) Texas Woman's University College of Nursing was located at 1130 MD Anderson Boulevard, now called John Freeman Boulevard. Here's an historical photo of the old building. Zooming in, you can clearly see the building name. Awesome white, modern, stairs too!
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The TIRR hospital system was founded in 1957 by Lamar Fleming, Jr., William Spencer, and Leon Jaworski. The hospital assumed the functions of the Southwestern Poliomyelitis Respiratory Center. Within the original TIRR hospital in the Texas Medical Center was a Rehabilitation Engineering Center. The Texas Rehabilitation Engineering Center was a cooperative center comprising of Texas A&M University, Baylor College of Medicine, and The Institute for Rehabilitation and Researched. The site was 4-1/2 acres big. Note; Also called the Baylor University Medical Rehabilitation Research and Training Center. The architects were Wilson, Morris, Crane, and Anderson. Structural Engineer was Walter P. Moore. Here are photos of the (now demolished) building. Building signage, zoomed in and distorted. Floor plans.
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The Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences was founded as a Baylor College of Medicine project in 1955 and funded by the state legislature in 1957 as the Houston State Psychiatric Institute for Research and Training. Edit: Before the building was demolished, in 2010, the business was named University of Texas Mental Sciences Institute. TRIMS originally occupied the Carriage House at The Baker Estate located at 2310 Baldwin Street. Later came into the Texas Medical Center with their own building located at 1300 Moursund Street and designed by Abel Brown Pierce. Here is a rendering (physical model?) of the old, now demolished, hospital sitting on 75,000 square feet.
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In 1963, Kelsey Seybold, then called Kelsey, Seybold, and Leary, built a 2-story hospital at 6624 Fannin Street in the Texas Medical Center. Growth soon happened and in 1966 and Kelsey & Leary had to build an expansion on top of the old building. I personally never known about the expansion until this week! The architect for the expansion was Ralph Anderson, Jr. of Wilson, Morris, Crane, & Anderson. Original building in 1963: Expansion in 1966. Also worth noting that one of the partner's names has been dropped. Hospital is now called Kelsey-Seybold.
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The (now demolished) Hermann Hospital The Mirtha G. Dunn Interfaith Chapel was located at 6411 Fannin Street in the Texas Medical Center. The Mirtha G. Dunn Interfaith Chapel. Photograph/Rendering. Mirtha G. Dunn March 1, 1927 - December 14, 1967
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The most infamous green space in the Texas Medical Center. Whoever the landscape architect was did an outstanding job! The small description listed on MD Anderson's parks and gardens webpage: https://www.mdanderson.org/patients-family/becoming-our-patient/while-youre-here/parks-gardens.html The Prairie Enjoy winding trails, trees, benches and birds. This setting features a 2-acre native prairie and wetland restoration, complete with educational signage. Here are some photos that I took today. Prairie Pothole Wetlands, Oasis and Nursery. Flowers and Flyers, MD Anderson Prairie Wildlife Oasis. Return of the Natives, Prairie Returns to the Texas Medical Center. Photo of the week! The TMC skyline with fresh spring bluebonnets. An aerial photograph that I took a few years ago. It is worth noting that there is two proposed buildings planned for this site. I don't think the green space will last much longer.
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Today I stopped by MD Anderson's Healthy Living Garden that is located on the west side of the Dan L. Duncan Building. I agree that it's nice to see park land next to all these hospitals. It really does feel peaceful being amongst the grass and flowers. A lot of the parks have uplifting quotes as well. Keep your spirit up! The small description listed on their parks and gardens webpage: https://www.mdanderson.org/patients-family/becoming-our-patient/while-youre-here/parks-gardens.html Healthy Living Garden Observe seasonal herbs and vegetables growing in this demonstration garden. Educational signage provides tips for healthy nutrition. Here are two photos that I took today:
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The Extended Stay America Suites Hotel located at 1301 South Braeswood Boulevard has a limited time. Located practically across the street from TMC Helix Park and some vacant MD Anderson land. MD Anderson will need this hotel parcel in order to build. Although, it is nice to have some budget (regular) hotel options when you are sick. Maybe it's a good thing that this hotel is here. Here's some photos that I took today:
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Dr. Carmen J. Kamas, DDS has her office in this tiny office building that's surrounded by MD Anderson parcels. In due time this will be undoubtedly controlled my MDA and it will be demolished. Here's a photo that I took today:
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The newest Texas Medical Center Parking Garage (that is freestanding) is now officially listed on TMC's Visitor Parking Brochure! Such a beautiful building. Elkus Manfredi really did excellent work here. For reference, the Texas Medical Center Garages 23 and 25 are in the basement of their respective buildings. The newest TMC map: https://www.tmc.edu/parking/visitor-parking/#MapGuideDownloads Photo of the garage that I took today:
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MD Anderson Sculpture Art At 1155 Pressler St.
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I wonder if that's why all the construction equipment is located at the MD Anderson South of Holcombe campus? Today I stopped by all the different gardens and prairies and noticed the sculpture art. I wonder if this art installation will be located inside the Dan L. Duncan building? It's located right outside. If so, HAIF has broken the news once again! I haven't heard anything in the media about this. These could be old and are being removed? For reference, here is all the equipment behind a blue screen fence. Artwork: -
The TMC Mid Campus is really unique. The institutions have yet to take ownership of all these 1-story, 30-year old buildings. Here is one business that's located in an MD-Anderson dominated area. MDA will soon buy this small automotive shop and add it to their land holdings. Med Center Collision Paint & Body Shop 1040 Lehall Houston, Texas 77030 713.799.2207 Here are the two photos that I took today:
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Houston Fire Station No. 33 At 7117 Fannin St.
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Today I stopped by to take photos of the Houston Fire Station No. 33 located at 7117 Fannin Street. The building is very well kept. I hardly remember the demolished one that was located across the street. Here are the two pictures I took today. -
Shriner's Hospital, then called Arabia Temple Crippled Children's Hospital, was built in 1952 in the Texas Medical Center. I could never find the address. Any help HAIF Historians? Designed by "star architect" Alfred C. Finn the building stood massive. Alfred C. Finn's rendering/drawing of the hospital.
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Given that the old (most recently new, built in the 1990s) Shriner's Hospital is about to be demolished, thought I would share some of the previous buildings they built in the Texas Medical Center. The Arabia Temple Crippled Children's Clinic was located at 1402 Outer Belt Drive. Outer Belt Drive no longer exists and was renamed Cambridge Street. Photograph: Postcard:
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This is (radical) and I wanted to share. TCH has a nice campus at Fannin & Holcombe. The circular/oval sky bridge is infamous. IMO, it's the best sky bridge in the whole Texas Medical Center! Although, Houston Methodist's Centennial Tower is supposed to have a 13-story sky bridge, which sounds out of this world too. TCH offers the campus map in their Wayfinding section of their website. https://www.texaschildrens.site/wayfinding/maps.html All four buildings have basement/underground parking. I believe that is very expensive to do, and also risky due to flooding.
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I was wondering if anyone could help me here. I have a physical document in front of me from the Texas Medical Center that omits Garage 13 from the official list of garages. What's going on here? Is this the same how elevators skip the 13th floor? Very bizarre. TMC Garage 12 was built in 1991 and TMC Garage 14 was built in 1994. If there was a garage built, it would have been between 1991 and 1994. Does anyone know anything about this? Usually, if the garage is private, for medical staff only, they would indicate as such. Maybe HAIF can play a discovery game where the objective is to try and find the missing garage.
