Beach Army Hospital

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Beach Army Hospital

2/1/2013

30 Comments

Ozzy

8/24/2013 02:32:33 pm

I have a question about this site, did you have to get permission to shoot at this location?

Tim Sullivan link

12/21/2013 11:52:57 am

I was stationed at Ft. Wolters after vietnam from 1968-1969 Beach Hospital was a busy facility at the time, who would guess it would deteoriate to the condition it is in today, SAD.

Tracy Hobson

2/10/2018 08:37:00 am

Tim, we have purchased the old Army hospital in Mineral Wells. I bet my husband and his brothers would love to take you on a tour and have you tell them your story. The history of the facility is such a wonderful thing to hear.

Victor Wadsworth link

2/11/2018 06:27:54 pm

I would love to tour it. I was one of the first babies born there April 3rd 1957, it was built March 1957. I have 843 posts of pictures and video's of Mineral Wells and the area with a few of the Hospital on a Google Plus collection, "Mineral Wells, Texas/Then & Now". I also have a collection of artifacts & books of the subject. My dad came from Georgia, was stationed at Wolters during the Korean Conflict, my grand father was a painter on the base and went to help rebuild Pearl Harbor after the attacks. My two uncles went to Vietnam from Mineral Wells and were there during the Tet Offensive.

Patrick Malloy

4/20/2018 09:44:25 am

How can i schedule a tour? super interested!

Mike Ringo

5/28/2014 07:36:35 am

I am planning on going there tomorrow where did you park to enter the hospital? thanks!

Lee

9/1/2014 06:18:09 am

I was born in this hospital in 1965!

2/6/2015 11:28:50 pm

Opened in NINEteen fifty-seven, by the way. Named for Major General George C. Beach, 1888-1848, Army physician.

Kelley

2/10/2015 11:44:05 pm

I was born here, 1970. My dad was stationed at Fort Wolters after he came back from Viet Nam. He says this was a very nice, modern hospital. It's crazy what they have allowed to happen to it.

Cheryl Smith

6/5/2015 02:13:27 pm

We stopped by here today, first time I have been back since I was born there in 1972 while my dad was stationed there. There are gates up all around it, would have loved to go inside!

Victor Wadsworth

1/16/2016 03:41:30 am

The hospital was opened March 1957 & I was one of the first babies born there, born April 3rd 1957.

LaNetta

1/6/2019 08:02:11 pm

I was born there April 4th 1967 !

Victor Wadsworth

1/18/2016 02:15:53 pm

Betsy Pierce

8/4/2016 06:53:36 am

I was born @ Beach Hospital
in Oct. '59. My brother was born
there, too, in March of '58. Our
Dad was stationed there as a Flight
Surgeon.

Victor Wadsworth link

10/30/2016 04:54:51 pm

Re-visited Beach Army Hospital before MWHS Home Coming Game on October 7th 2016. Having been born there, days after it opened, it made me feel old looking at something that belonged in a Stephen King movie. Many pictures of Beach Army Hospital in my Google+ collection, "Mineral Wells, Texas/Then & Now".

Betsy Hamby

11/1/2016 08:11:00 am

I see you were there recently, too!
We were there this past summer
(July '16). Yes, it does look creepy!
However, we still would have liked to
have gone in, if for no other reason
than to have gotten a perspective of
its size! Thank you all for your comments!

Victor Wadsworth

11/4/2016 09:40:14 am

It seemed relatively safe, I only went into the bottom floor on both sides. I hope to go back and take video footage. A lot of decay but looks structurally sound. Might make a great haunted house. If you liked Lonesome Dove, the cattleman Gus was fashioned by lived nine miles North of town West of the State marker for him. His name was Oliver Loving & I have pictures in my Google Plus collection.

Michele link

1/11/2017 05:51:35 am

WOW, I was born at this Hospital in 1971. I have not seen it since then. It is really scary to see where you were shut down after such a short career. Then to see it in such a mess, SAD, scary.

Raider

12/10/2016 11:46:25 am

I am working near there and actually went in to tour ir very quickly since we was in the time clock had to make it fast looks creepy.

Jonathan Russell

1/30/2017 09:47:09 am

I was there this past weekend doing location scouting for a film I'm planning. At least one of the owners was there along with a crew that was working inside the building. The owner that I spoke to gave me permission to photograph the building and did say the police will arrest trespassers. If the police were to show up he said to let them know he was aware of my presence and had his permission. I told him I was only interested in the exterior of the building and had no intention of entering it.

Another guy approached me as I started taking photos. He wasn't one of the owners but I think was in charge of the crew. I talked to him at length and he said they were working on cleaning out the inside of the building to make it safer to go inside. Then, they plan over the next few months to gut the building. After that he said they may be willing to rent it out for a few different things including filming. The eventual plan is to convert it into a technical school. So if you plan on going over the course of the next few months it's likely there will be people working, and it's appearance may change depending on what they do outside of and around it.

Scott Cook link

3/11/2017 06:00:43 pm

The Beach Army Hospital is getting a new life. As of Feb 2017, it has been bought and is being renovated into a HVAC training center.

Tracy Hobson

2/10/2018 08:28:56 am

My husbands family are renovating the hospital into an HVAC trade school. If anyone has any pictures from the early life of the hospital and are willing to share we would love to use them as wall decoration. Thank you!!!

Scott Cook link

2/12/2018 11:59:48 am

Tracy - please contact me, I'd love to get you a print of a pic I took last time there when your family let me and my kid roam the place

MYRICK HOLDER

6/24/2018 10:04:08 pm

Tracy, is there a way to contact you to possibly set up a tour for a college project I'm working on. I would like to be able to take some pictures if possible.

Tony Williams

3/30/2020 02:20:16 pm

I am very interested in helping develop an HVAC trade school. I am in the business and after 30 years I need to look at something else.. I saw this facility this weekend as I was visiting the Baker Hotel site.. I would be interested in helping your husband in any way possible because this trade needs people BAD!!

Sherry Rose link

3/23/2017 02:36:29 pm

My Brother was on the Base in 1971 with a company to paint barracks. It had rained . His ladder fell on high wire and was electrocuted. He passed at this hospital. We just found out 2 yrs ago that this is where he passed away.

Victor Wadsworth

4/21/2017 11:43:29 am

Not sure but after the attacks on Pearl Harbor my grandfather Charles Davis went to Pearl for clean-up, I think through Camp Wolters. Pepaw was the town painter for Mineral Wells for years and I can remember seeing him paint both exit and entrance signs to the town. It might be possible he knew your brother back in the day. I was 14 in 1971. I have a photo in Google Plus of my grandfather's painter's group.

Cj link

11/15/2017 01:40:01 pm

Anybody have the owners name and number to the hospital

Ronald Brinegar

1/27/2018 05:36:44 pm

I was stationed at Beach when I got back from Viet Nam in the fall of 1966. It was a great place for newly wedded couple believe it or not. I was promoted to CPT there . I'd love to here from any MSC offers who were there from 1966 to early 68

Patrick Malloy

4/20/2018 09:43:00 am

how do i schedule a tour? Super interested!

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