{"nrhp_refnum":"01001281","name":"Brooke Army Medical Center","other_names":["Brooke General Hospital","Brooke General Hospital and Convalescent Center"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Building 1000, Stanley Rd., Fort Sam Houston","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Antonio","county":"Bexar County","state":"TX","lat":29.466460512000026,"lon":-98.44946165699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-11-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Health/Medicine","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Brooke Army Medical Center (Building 1000) is an eight-story brick hospital in the New Post section of Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, built between 1935 and 1937 and designed by the Office of the Constructing Quartermaster.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its role in military and health/medicine history, as Fort Sam Houston shifted from an infantry post to a medical post and the hospital became a national armed forces medical center and training facility. It is also significant as an excellent example of a quartermaster-designed Spanish Colonial Revival building. It retains a high degree of integrity.","narrative":"Building 1000 at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio is an eight-story brick hospital completed in 1937 as the centerpiece of the post's New Post complex. Designed by the Office of the Constructing Quartermaster, it was built with National Industrial Recovery Act and Public Works Administration funds at a cost of about $1.6 million, and it provided jobs during the Depression. The Spanish Colonial Revival design includes a cast-stone entry portico with Spanish Baroque detailing, a stepped tower with a tile roof, and a lobby with a coffered ceiling and decorative tile floor. It opened as a station hospital, became Brooke General Hospital in 1942 and Brooke Army Medical Center in 1946, reflecting the post's change from infantry to medical training. It was listed for its military and medical history and as a fine example of quartermaster architecture. The hospital was abandoned in the mid-1990s after a new facility replaced it, yet it keeps strong integrity, with alterations mostly inside.","period_of_significance":"1935-1949","architect_builder":"Office of the Constructing Quartermaster; Captain Edwin V. Dunston, Quartermaster Corps; R. E. McKee, Contractor, El Paso; Banspach Brothers, Foundation Contractor, San Antonio","architectural_style":"Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The 1930s hospital building was abandoned in the mid-1990s when a new hospital was built in the eastern part of Fort Sam Houston and the Brooke Army Medical Center name moved to it.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.102474-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/96/9712/40971296/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/01001281.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001281/3a31aee4b8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001281/3a31aee4b8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jonmallard","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_BAMC_during_winter_Storm_Viola.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonmallard</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_BAMC_during_winter_Storm_Viola.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971296","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110884919"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bexar-county/brooke-army-medical-center-01001281/"}