History
The original hospital opened in 1894 in a wooden building on a 17-acre (69,000 m2) meadow located at Oak Lawn Avenue and Maple. The name Parkland came from the land on which the hospital was built, originally purchased by the city as a park. A brick building (the first ever erected in Texas, now owned by the Trammell Crow Company) replaced the wooden facility in 1913.
In 1954, Parkland moved to its current location, about a mile from the original site.
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