{"nrhp_refnum":"75001984","name":"Old Post Sanitarium","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"117 North Ave. N","address_restricted":false,"city":"Post","county":"Garza County","state":"TX","lat":33.19207829000004,"lon":-101.38398142399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-05-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story stone hospital building with basement at 117 North Avenue N in Post, Garza County, Texas, built in 1912-1913 by Scottish stonemasons Scottie Samson and Jimmy Napier for town founder C. W. Post.","why_significant":"It was one of the earliest hospitals in the Panhandle and South Plains region and was unusually well equipped for a settlement only five years old. It is also a tangible link to C. W. Post and his plan for a model town. Post's interest in health and dietetics led to its founding.","narrative":"Built of hand-cut white sandstone quarried at the edge of the Cap Rock, the Post Sanitarium is a two-story rectangular building with a basement in Post, Texas. Its east facade is dominated by a large pedimented gable carried on two-story fluted concrete columns, with a wooden-balustrade gallery on the second floor. Scottish stonemasons Scottie Samson and Jimmy Napier built it for C. W. Post, the cereal manufacturer who founded the town in 1907 as a model community for farmers. Opened in 1913, the hospital had an x-ray room, an operating room with tile floor and skylight, a diet kitchen, a nurse's training program, steam heat, and its own gasoline-powered electric plant. It is considered one of the earliest hospitals in the region. It closed in 1920, served as an apartment house from 1928 to 1953, and then sat vacant for 13 years. Garza County bought it in 1966, and it now operates as a museum.","period_of_significance":"1912","architect_builder":"Scottie Samson and Jimmy Napier","architectural_style":"Neo-Classical Revival elements, with wide eaves and exposed gable framing reflecting stick or bungalow styles","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a museum since Garza County bought it in 1966; it was vacated for 13 years before that. Condition listed as good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.657084-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/82/9720/40972082/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/75001984.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001984/3cbfd4f1c4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001984/3cbfd4f1c4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Billy Hathorn","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Revised_photo_of_Garza_County_Historical_Museum_IMG_4643.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Billy Hathorn</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Revised_photo_of_Garza_County_Historical_Museum_IMG_4643.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972082","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000439"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/garza-county/old-post-sanitarium-75001984/"}