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Completed in 1869 during the rebuilding of Fort Brown by Captain William Alonzo Wainwright, the Post Hospital Annex (also known as the Medical Laboratory), was constructed to house personnel assigned to work in the nearby Post Hospital. A finely crafted, classically influenced building, it subsequently was used as a medical laboratory, for storage purposes, and as a dispensary.
Post Hospital Annex is a historical marker in Brownsville, Cameron County, dedicated in 1962. It is one of 116 historical markers documented in Cameron County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 194 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 25.8983, -97.4924 near Brownsville. The nearest cataloged historic site is Post Hospital (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Fort Brown, Buildings 85 and 86, Fort Brown Reservation, and Launching Site of First U.S. Army Warplane.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5061004087. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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