The Baker Hotel Mineral Wells Texas

[@RRRogers2000]

My great great great grandpa is Will Rogers! :)

[@bigcatdaddy76016]

Good for you.

[@victorwadsworth821]

I remember taking the elevator half way up the Baker to deliver the Index in 1969.

[@TheRealDealListenup]

Excellent ! Really enjoyed the look...I could stay there all day looking around...infact it feels as tho I have...but never have...strange

[@hornedfrogmeg]

This is a great video. Thanks for posting it!

[@ChesterPaulSgroi]

Thanks for sharing this. This is the only Baker Hotel video I've seen so far where it has electricity, a working elevator, furniture and hasn't been vandalized. If it was no longer a hotel at this point, who was paying the bills and giving tours? It's a real pity they let it go to pot and just walked away. Shame on them! Really wish a longer version of this presentation had survived.

[@helium5912]

Its getting Restored right now

[@That1_CopDude]

It had giant generators in the basement that provided all of the electricity to the Hotel.

[@That1_CopDude]

Also, I would like to add that there were a number of factors that lead to the Baker closing it’s doors, firstly being the day it opened was November 9th 1929, why is that important? Well the great Stock market crash that led to the Great Depression was October 24th 1929. Talk about rough timing, but on the contrary the Hotel did indeed manage to somewhat flourish for a time, even in such unfortunate times due to Fort Wolters (later named Camp Wolters) army base that was right outside of mineral wells, however business was steady declining as the years rolled on, with business peaking from 1959-1968ish, due to Camp Wolters becoming the only Training grounds for all of the Helicopter Pilots for the war in Vietnam. And when Wolters was decommissioned in 1972, the baker would soon follow.

[@deannahouston1266]

My great grandmother was the executive housekeeper at the Baker, my great grandaddy helped build it and worked in the kitchen, my great uncle was the auditor. I have several other family members that worked there. I was lucky enough to visit it twice and would love to go back.

[@helium5912]

Its getting Restored right now

[@srvfan454]

man you're lucky. I live nearby and i've wanted to go in that hotel my whole life! used to pass through Mineral Wells with my grandpa when i was little.

[@victorwadsworth821]

The black man at the beginning is Mr. Pool who had Murray's Grill #2 across from the Baker, he had great burgers.

[@stmontal]

i was just inside the hotel yesterday and it has deteriorated enormously since the time this video was made. I don't think people realize how quickly it is falling apart. Something must be done to save this magnificent piece of architecture as soon as possible.

[@iam4serenity]

I have been fascinated by that old place since I was a kid, now my kids have to walk around the perimeter, peeking in the windows every time we visit. What I wouldn't give to have a peek inside.....

[@NEXTEDGEVIDEO]

Thanks for the very nice comment. Are you from Texas?

[@mishistory]

It is amazing to look into this old hotel. I have stopped to look at it many times. I recently visited The Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs, AR. it's like stepping back in time. Very similar to The Baker. I wish the Baker could be restored!

[@nancyneville8700]

I live in Ft Worth and drive to Mineral Wells as often as possible, fishing, Halloween and to look at this grand building......such a marvelous place

[@tdhunt66]

a nice video. both of my maternal grandparents families have lived in the Mineral Wells area for 5 generations. whenever we went to see my grandparents, i knew we were close to their house when i saw the Bake in the distance. It would be such a shame to lose the grand old lady of Mineral Wells.

[@NEXTEDGEVIDEO]

Thank you. It's a wonderful place. Have you been there before?

[@MrHuds88]

I live in Azle, about 30 min from Mineral Wells, me and a few of my buddies have acutally been to the Baker and found ourselves a way in. What a great view from up in the bell tower! I wish they would open the place for tours, there are only a few places that are in too bad of shape for tourists, a couple of large holes in floors etc..anywho, a very interesting place to go explore!

[@tammylynwilson]

I love the Baker Hotel. This is a great video.

[@22JessieLee]

It's so strange... I'm researching the Hotel Baker located in St. Charles, Illinois (built in 1928). There are a few local legends of deaths that have occured in the hotel, making it "incredibly haunted", but going through 85 years worth of newspaper articles about the hotel, I cannot find any basis for these stories (one for example of a woman jumping off the balcony and committing suicide). Then I come across Hotel Baker in Mineral Wells, and I think I found the source of these stories! And i

[@TheBlackcop123]

Love this I live their and pass by the hotel on my way to school everyday. And my sister takes a dance class where the building is located across the street and the teacher of the class has very interesting stories of her own. Mainly cause their were secret tunnels under ground going to the baker. And her dance studio is connected to one of those tunnels.

[@changeDAmange]

i live here in mineral wells

[@vanessahra3348]

Me and my family go to mineral wells we pass by there all the time

[@jimboli88]

i use to live in mineral wells and ive always been curious about what it looks like in there especially the top

[@NEXTEDGEVIDEO]

it was a beautiful place in its day. kind of spooky now.

[@NEXTEDGEVIDEO]

Thanks for the nice comments. It's a great place with great people. It is sad to see it falling apart. It really is dangerous to go through now. If you go out there contact Jane Catrett. As far as I know she still is the local contact. Feel free to send the video to your friends. Andrew

[@akunikuku]

Just heard that investors are going to fund restoring our beloved Baker on KRLD! I pray this is really going to come to fruition:) I'm so happy!!!

[@zippy75225]

tilkae, the song at the end is "Moonlight Serenade"---Glenn Miller Orchestra

[@jakebrandystapleton7062]

the Baker hotel is being worked on, set to reopen in 2022, went by there last week. Construction workers were there working

[@quapawqwerty1619]

Great video, especially of locals who were there. Reminds of The Arlington in Hot Springs. Reading how Texas springs went dry right and left in a certain time period... like the great fires and Dews (Galveston) of the 1800s and into the anarchy years... like steam trains... pollution non-existent in the age of "Tartaria" and the 1,000 years of Christ Consciousness. Check out Tartaria.

[@xflyersbydillon9126]

I agree we cannot let it be destroyed

[@pulaskiacademy]

@mishistory The baker and arlington in hot springs are VERY similar in architecture - very identical!!! The interiors are very similar. I noticed that, too, looking at pictures of the baker and having stayed at the arlington many times. both hotels were constructed in towns that drew people for their healing mineral water/hot springs - interesting

[@historiclift27]

Just noticed that restoration has started on the hotel. never been there but I hope to stay there someday. I hope they keep the elevators as they are and hire opperators.

[@NEXTEDGEVIDEO]

Did you meet Jane Catrett? She used to manage it back in the 1990's. Don't know if she still does. I used to do tours out there but from what I have heard the hotel is too dangerous to bring people thru anymore. Sad...

[@NEXTEDGEVIDEO]

yes i had heard that. do you live out there?

[@Somethingelse506]

Our family used to own that hotel now we have some of that furniture

[@NEXTEDGEVIDEO]

Hi Anthony, when did your family own the Baker?

[@8wolfgang8]

cool man I go there all the time

[@NEXTEDGEVIDEO]

I used to do tours back in the mid '90s too. Good luck on the restoration. Unfortunately the buyer would have to love the hotel so much they would be willing to loose money. It will never be viable. Sad... Do you ever see Jayne?

[@NEXTEDGEVIDEO]

What do you do there? what was the hotel like when you worked there?

[@KeithCindyPanama]

There is a hotel in Detroit called The Durant Hotel and it was built in 1929 and abaned in 1970 restored to apartments in 2010 maybe if you looke it up you could contact the renevators.

[@bonecrusher328]

why did they shut it down

[@NEXTEDGEVIDEO]

This was produced for a news station in dallas so it is short format.

[@megalizabeth]

I grew up in mineral wells...Someone has bought it out, and they are repairing it.

[@NEXTEDGEVIDEO]

who is the woman you are speaking about? i don't know much about the community. it has been years since i have been out there

[@SPYLAGO]

My father lived in and was born in mineral wells untill he was 17 i visit there many times a year and wonder why the Air to the Walmart fortune wont fund the restoration to this beautiful landmark.

[@nancyneville8700]

Because of stupidity

[@NEXTEDGEVIDEO]

Jane Catrett used to manage it. But I don't know if she is still around. The hotel is quite dangerous nowadays. I have not been in it for years. It is sad to think it is in such disrepair.

[@NEXTEDGEVIDEO]

Do you live near the hotel?

[@kellybrynn9]

The story about the lady jumping into the pool IS NOT true. The legend came from The story of Virginia Brown who lived on the 7th floor. She was supposedly a mistress, but she didn't kill herself. She died of old age in San Antonio. My sister did an article over it, and interviewed the Baker's manager and caretaker. They have documents to prove it.

[@Laurisa718]

I hope this hotel was saved, and I thought I read that it had been. Too many of these historical places are destroyed and with it a history of the land goes with it. Save it! Ghosts and all. It's a part of our history!

[@helium5912]

Its getting Restored.

[@megalizabeth]

I grew up around the baker hotel, i can see it from my front porch, I have had friends sneak in when we were in high school (photos on the camera to prove it.) and the stories that i have heard lead me to believe that yes it is haunted, I would love to check it out, i just don't have the courage to break in and find out first hand...i'll leave that to ghost hunters

[@ctg6734]

Wow! Looks like the Baker was still in quite good condition at that time. Sad to see how badly it deteriorated now.

[@brandonsvlog8533]

Yes it’s sad to see what 10 years, this video was most likely made in the late 80’s or the 90’s maybe the early 00’s at the latest cause there’s a video on here of the hotel in 2009 and it’s already starting to fall apart and in 2018 it’s practically falling apart from roof damage and vandalism.

[@ctg6734]

@@brandonsvlog8533 Although it's awesome to see that they are indeed restoring it now.

[@brandonsvlog8533]

@@ctg6734 it’s certainly is the building never should’ve been left to run down and decay as much as it did before it finally got remodeled and repaired

[@kev1354]

When was this record it

[@NEXTEDGEVIDEO]

Around 1992

[@misspeaches197819761]

it doesn't even have a plaque no where saying the name of it and i was just there this past week nov28, 2008

[@kimberlycrownover7241]

i went there last year and it does need a lot of work.we went on the haunted ghost tour.

[@katechavez4603]

Do you need to pay to be in the tour?

[@PrincessMareep]

I used to live near the Baker. It's pretty and scary at the same time

[@landronics]

my dad stayed at that place when he was growing up

[@megalizabeth]

A family has just recently bought it, i think with in this past year...they are planning on rebuilding it

[@NEXTEDGEVIDEO]

I'll bet he had some great stories about the hotel in its heyday! You are right about rebuilding it. No one will make money from it so it will stay in the condition it is in. Sad really.

[@Lasvegasflash]

My grandfather sold newpapers in front of the Baker in the 1930's, he passed away last week at age 90. He and my grandmother live two blocks away on 4th street. I wish they would rebuild it, its just too old and cant be salvaged. Its literally falling apart, and the plumbing in rotted. It would cost millions to rebuild.

[@tammylynwilson]

I don't think it's really much worse, I think they tell people that because they don't want people in there. It's been very difficult to get permission to go in there the last few years. Jane was still taking care of some things last year even.

[@patsaxon5284]

This must be an early video, because a recent videos shows it in bad condition.

[@dogfreqs7079]

Around 1995.

[@TheBlackcop123]

I forgot to mention that here recently the city has voted to reopen the baker. Well of course they are going to fix it up first.

[@notahoboe]

Darrius Asparagus as of November of 2016 they have started working on the hotel. They are doing a 25 million dollar restoration which only half of what they need.

[@devinpetersen2387]

Looking at it now it's in complete disrepair. It's really sad.

[@andrewbeneze828]

They could have fixed the roof years ago. Too late now. Its all gone. The large rugs in the lobby would have been a fortune if they would have pulled them out when the video was shot. They were in good condition. The hotel is just a hunk of cement now. Standing forever...

[@NEXTEDGEVIDEO]

I guess because it is a spooky abandoned place. what have you heard?

[@proseinc123]

@NEXTEDGEVIDEO it seems like jane may have died she was my only info to the hotel she will be missed

[@melissatucker3258]

Me And My Sister Have Visited The Baker Many Times . We Were In Great Hopes That They Would Rebuild The 1929 Hotel, But Never Did . Anyway Unfortunately It Looks Like There Never Gonna Remodel . IT'S So Dissapointing /You Here Rumors Of They Might Rebuild, But I Think They Won't...

[@victorwadsworth821]

He/Pool made some great hamburgers at Murry's Grill #2 across from the Baker.

[@sessaxoxo]

i desperately want the baker hotel to be saved. i did actually go inside and id give all the money to fix it up if i had it.

[@Just_Gale1185]

I just can't find the suicide video. I wanna investigate at this young age so that when I finally go back to my true home, I'll now much more than I did before I moved.

[@regina8972]

They are speaking about Alice Walton. Sam Walton's daughter AKA WALMART. She lives south of town on a lavish ranch. She is just a drunk, she was banished from Arkansas for killing someone while drunk driving...look it up if you dont believe me. ;)

[@suzoo86]

you must be talking about Alice Walton-Walmart. I think that the Baker is so far gone that it would not be worth the money to restore it. True it was a beauty in it's day but I just came from Minerals Wells and did looked inside the Baker from the windows (what windows that were not broken and boarded-up). The place is truely falling apart .

[@busboy207]

It's sad to see it now. I work for the city and get to go in there every once in a while...but the elements and vandals have it looking pitiful now.

[@captain0981]

Fun fact: that "dental office" is where my granddad got is teeth pulled

[@NEXTEDGEVIDEO]

I guess you could get everything done at The Baker!

[@sjstocky]

They don't, I was just there on sat/09/09 and few people cared.

[@joeycross]

you know they cant tear down the baker. the way it is built completely dissable that. it would scatter over the majority of the city instead of imploding with in its self.

[@vanessahra3348]

Im close to mineral wells i live in Graham tx.

[@igotswagg70]

I live here

[@vanessahra3348]

A women tried to jump in one of the swimming pools but she missed it and cracked her head open

[@sarahleach9997]

She killed herself she wasn't trying to hit the pool.joyce hamilton has the real Is very different.

[@frbyrd54]

@NEXTEDGEVIDEO Alice Walton

[@suzoo86]

You must be talking about Alice Walton-Walmart. I think that it would take more money than it is worth to restore. True it was once a beauty but now I think it to far gone.