{"nrhp_refnum":"96001234","name":"Northwest Texas Hospital School of Nursing","other_names":["Northwest Texas Hospital Nurses' Home"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2209 W. 6th Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Amarillo","county":"Potter County","state":"TX","lat":35.20896325100006,"lon":-101.92792509899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick nurses' residence and school building at 2209 West Sixth Avenue in Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, built in 1924 as part of the Northwest Texas Hospital complex and enlarged in 1938-39 and 1951.","why_significant":"The building is the only surviving part of the original public hospital complex to retain its historic integrity. It represents the growth of public health care and nursing education in Amarillo (Criterion A). It is also a well-crafted, little-altered institutional work by architect Guy Anton Carlander (Criterion C).","narrative":"Built in 1924 on West Sixth Avenue in Amarillo, this brick residence housed student nurses training at the new Potter County public hospital. Architect Guy Anton Carlander designed it with Prairie School influences and Gothic cast stone details, and he oversaw additions in 1938-39 and 1951 that matched the original materials so closely the building reads as one unit. The hospital itself was later altered heavily and the tubercular cottage was demolished, leaving the nursing school as the only intact piece of the original complex. The school opened with four students, offered a three-year diploma program, and grew into the largest diploma nursing school in Texas. It also served as the students' required residence, with strict house rules. The building is significant for its role in public health care and nursing education in Amarillo and as a carefully detailed example of Carlander's institutional work. It is now vacant and boarded against intruders.","period_of_significance":"1924-1951","architect_builder":"Carlander, Guy Anton (architect); V.E. Ware Construction Co. (builder, 1924); Litle, Frank (builder, 1938-39); Wirtz, Walter (builder, 1951)","architectural_style":"Prairie School; Late Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacant; doors and windows are covered with wood panels to secure the building, and the original glass is intact beneath.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.858002-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/8/9732/40973208/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/96001234.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973208","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000177"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/potter-county/northwest-texas-hospital-school-of-nursing-96001234/"}