Wedemeyer Hospital Site
Taylor, Williamson County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Occupied 1915 by early prominent physician, Dr. G. A. Wedemeyer (Aug. 26, 1875 - Jan. 24, 1936), a native of Burton, Washington County, who came to Taylor 1905. Hospital was continuously operated until 1957; then became retirement home. Exterior is in original style; interior modernized. (1969)
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Dr. G. A. Wedemeyer, a native of Washington County, came to the booming railroad town of Taylor in 1905 and by 1915 occupied this building as one of its leading physicians. His hospital served the community without interruption until 1957, when it was converted into a retirement home. Its exterior still wears its original early-twentieth-century style even as the interior was modernized.
Why it matters
The Wedemeyer hospital stands for the era when a single dedicated physician's private facility supplied the health care of a whole Texas town, long before modern regional medical centers.
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