Marker Inscription
Commerce, Health/Medicine, Ethnic Heritage - Black
Historic Place
Bluitt Sanitarium
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About this site
Bluitt Sanitarium is a historic place in Dallas, Dallas County, dedicated in 2006. It is one of 68 historic places documented in Dallas County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 531 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 32.7811, -96.7924 near Dallas. The nearest cataloged historic site is Purvin-Hexter Building (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Dallas City Hall, 1914-1978, Hilton Hotel, and Dallas Scottish Rite Temple.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2006000651. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Bluitt Sanitarium is a brick building on Commerce Street in Dallas, constructed in 1904 and established as a medical facility in 1906 by Dr. Benjamin R. Bluitt, the first African-American surgeon in Texas. A graduate of Wiley College and Meharry Medical College, Bluitt opened what became the first hospital and clinic serving African Americans in Dallas during the segregation era, with offices and clinic space on the lower floors and patient care above. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
Sources: dallascityhall.comtshaonline.org
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