DR. J. A. CALDWELL PRIVATE
SANITARIUM IS REFINISHED
ON INTERIOR -- HAS BEAUTIFUL
PRIVATE PARK.
Daily Courier-Gazette, July 25,
1925
Extensive interior remodeling of the Dr.
James A. Caldwell Sanitarium has just been completed. The work covered a period
of about ten weeks. The Caldwell Sanitarium occupies a whole city block of
200x240 feet in dimensions. It is a forty-eight room, two story brick building,
66 feet wide and 148 feet long with 600 feet of broad varandas. A big basement,
containing a modern heating plant and other needed storage space, also adds to
the extensiveness of the building which is equipped with every modern
convenience that the city affords.
The woodwork was done by the skilled hand
of contractor W. L. Braswell while the painting was done by F. G. Hogge assisted
by W. H. Stout, two artists with the brush. Every room in the building including
reception hall, library, office, operating rooms as well as rooms for the
patients and the halls have been completely made new in appearance. Every room
is modernly furnished and has been made to appear much more attractive to
appearance to inmates and visitors. A Frigidaire system has been ordered and
will son be installed. In winter time the entire building is automatically
heated by gas to whatever uniform temperature the season may require.
Dr. Caldwell was a regular medical
practitioner in McKinney for several years before specializing about nineteen
years ago in the treatment of cancer, tumor, goiters, and chronic diseases of
women. About fourteen years ago he erected his present big two story brick
sanitarium, one of the largest private sanitariums in the state in the smaller
cities.
Since that time his patients have come
from practically every state in the union. A number of patients have come to him
for treatment from such metropolitan cities as Chicago and New York. The
sanitarium is located on the north side of his block while the remainder of the
block has been converted into a beautiful park on which ornamental trees,
shrubbery, flowers and grass are growing. His lawn and flowers are watered by an
automatic irrigation system that keeps them green and growing even in periods of
drouth similar to the present one. The Caldwell Sanitarium faces two paved
street -- South Tennessee and East Standifer Streets. The doctor also owns one
half of the block across Standifer immediately south of his sanitarium facing on
South Tennessee and Standifer Streets. On this property he has erected five
modern five to seven room rent houses with sleeping porches, garages, and all
city conveniences. Since he built them several years ago these choice rent
houses have never been vacant and the doctor has never had to ask a tenant for
his rent, neither has he ever lost a dollar of rent on any of them. This modern
rent property was made so desirable that the highest class of tenants are always
on the waiting list for Dr. Caldwell's houses when any of them happens to become
vacant by removal of occupants to a home of his own or moving out of the city.
Dr. Caldwell's sanitarium property and
adjacent private park constitute one of the show places in McKinney. The old
fashioned, whole-souled southern hospitality dispensed by the doctor and his
good wife are always most charming to visitors, patients, neighbors, friends and
strangers who may call to visit the pre-eminently successful McKinney
institution. Dr. Caldwell is a member of the Chamber of Commerce., prominent in
church, fraternal and civic circles. He is universally esteemed for the
liberality in purse to his charities and in promotion of every worthy enterprise
which the city and county sponsors.
Dr. and Mrs. Caldwell are the parents of
two children both prominent young business men locally. One of them Gilman
Caldwell, is manager of the Collin County Mill & Elevator Company, president of
the Old Settlers and Ex Confederates Reunion Association of Collin County,
vice-president of the McKinney Chamber of Commerce and other wise prominent in
city and county affairs. The other son, Roy Caldwell is a member of the C. & T.
Grocery firm in partnership with J. J. Thompson. Each one of these sons is
happily married and have two children each -- a son and a daughter, "Dr.
Caldwell and wife, their two sons, two daughters-in-law and four beautiful
little grand-children make indeed a happy family circle that fill an important
part in almost every phase of McKinney life -- professionally, in business,
fraternal, social and civic circles.
Places Index
Recommended
citation:
"Caldwell Sanitarium - Places, COLLIN COUNTY HISTORY," Collin County, Texas History and Genealogy
Webpage by Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries, Inc., <http://www.geocities/genfriendsghl>
[Accessed Fri February 13, 2004].
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