Briggs Sanitorium is a former

sanitorium A sanatorium (from Latin ''wikt:sanare, sānāre'' 'to heal'), also sanitarium or sanitorium, is a historic name for a Hospital#Specialized, specialised hospital for the treatment of specific diseases, related ailments, and convalescence. Sa ...

(also listed as Briggs' Sanitarium) developed in 1896 by Dr. J.R. Briggs, and located at the corner of Jefferson and Tyler streets, in

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. Noted as the first hospital built in

, it included five wings, containing fifty-two rooms. In 1905, its medical director was J. R. Briggs. The building burned down in a devastating fire, which started in the sanitarium's laboratory, and continued on to ravage fourteen city blocks on April 3, 1909.''Dallas Morning News'', April 4, 1909 ed.

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