[3] The attached medical facility, the first non-profit hospital for Black patients in Houston, provided work for black physicians who were normally barred from admitting patients to segregated Houston hospitals.

In 1918, Houston philanthropist Joseph S. Cullinan established a fund to erect a fifty-bed hospital.

[2] The Spanish Colonial Revival style building began construction in 1925 and the school was officially opened in 1927.

Dedication of the building occurred on June 19, 1926, to coincide with the 61st anniversary of Juneteenth, despite ongoing construction.

This article about a property in Texas on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.