MD Anderson The Oaks Hospital In The Baker Estate At 2310 Baldwin St.

[Highrise Tower]

In the mid 1940s, MD Anderson was granted to setup in the old Baker Estate donated by Rice Institute.

A little confused. I thought I read an article that mentioned MD Anderson's first clinics were located in an abandoned military barrack/house. Maybe a Naval house of sorts? I know James Baker was a Captain so it would make sense.

Then known as The University of Texas Post-Graduate School of Medicine M.D. Anderson Hospital. You would need to enlarge the image to see the building signage. The James Baker mansion is to the right and the clinic on the left.

The Baker stables were turned into a laboratory.

The clinics.

[Ross]

1 hour ago, Highrise Tower said:

In the mid 1940s, MD Anderson was granted to setup in the old Baker Estate donated by Rice Institute.

A little confused. I thought I read an article that mentioned MD Anderson's first clinics were located in an abandoned military barrack/house. Maybe a Naval house of sorts? I know James Baker was a Captain so it would make sense.

Then known as The University of Texas Post-Graduate School of Medicine M.D. Anderson Hospital. You would need to enlarge the image to see the building signage. The James Baker mansion is to the right and the clinic on the left.

 

 

 

The unused military buildings were moved to the Baker Estate according to the MD Anderson history page https://www.mdanderson.org/about-md-anderson/facts-history/who-was-md-anderson.html

"The hospital began its operations in temporary quarters on the James A. Baker estate at 2310 Baldwin Street in downtown Houston during World War II, under the acting director, Ernst W. Bertner, M.D. MD Anderson Cancer Center rightly regards the Baker home and extensive grounds as its place of birth. Several war-surplus buildings were added in the late 1940s and 46 patients were being treated in those primitive quarters when the hospital moved to its current site in March 1954."