Karl Hoblitzelle was a Dallas businessman and board member of the Southwestern Medical Foundation, which was created in 1939 to support medical education research, and patient care in North Texas. The Foundation opened Southwestern Medical College in 1943 on land behind Parkland Hospital, which was then located on Maple Avenue. In 1946, Hoblitzelle donated sixty-two acres of land on Harry Hines Blvd. to be used for a new medical school campus. The donated land was adjacent to the proposed site for the new Parkland Hospital, which was eventually built in 1954. In 1959, the second building on the medical school’s new campus was named the Hoblitzelle Building, in his honor.
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