Yorktown Memorial Hospital is a former hospital in

Yorktown, Texas Yorktown is a city in DeWitt County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,810 at the 2020 census. Geography Yorktown is located in southwestern DeWitt County at (28.983196, –97.502415). State Highways 72 and 119 intersect on the weste ...

, United States. The extant abandoned hospital was later opened to tour groups.

History

Yorktown Memorial Hospital opened in 1951, at a cost of approximately $500,000. It was operated by the

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, an order of Catholic nuns. The hospital had administration offices, and two two-story wings containing hospital rooms, a chapel, and a basement. The hospital closed in 1986, and then reopened as a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, which closed in the 1990s. A private owner purchased the property, and offered tours. The building was featured on the television show ''

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''. In 2018, the city of Yorktown cited the owner with building code violations, and tours were discontinued.

References

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