- City:
- Gatesville, TX
- Site Type:
- Hospitals and Clinics, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1942
- Completed:
- 1943
- Designers:
- Brooks Pierson, L. S. Secrest
- Contractor:
- Works Progress Administration
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1940, Coryell County voters passed an issue for $30,000 in bonds bearing interest at the rate of not more than three percent to build a county hospital. Those bonds were issued on July 8, 1940.
Designed by architects Brooks Pierson of Waco and L. S. Secrest of Gatesville, a 34-bed hospital built primarily with Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor was constructed and equipped between 1942 and 1943 at a cost of around $60,000.
The county renovated the building in 2013 for a mental health unit, and currently the building is the Gatesville Center for Central County Services, which provides treatment for those diagnosed with mental illness.
Source notes
Cornerstone
Coryell Memorial Helthcare System Extended History
(https://www.cmhos.org/about-coryell-memorial-healthcare-system-alias/our-history/cmhs-extended-history), accessed June 22, 2018.
Renovated Gatesville facility nearly ready to open
(https://www.tdtnews.com/news/article_84cc273e-2e40-11e3-ad59-0019bb30f31a.html), accessed June 22, 2018.
Site originally submitted by Larry Moore on June 20, 2018.
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