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It wasn’t until 1912, when Dr.

Frank Paschal helped to found

the Bexar County Medical

Library Association, that the

need for a more permanent

home was first addressed.

Paschal persuaded a group of

young doctors to contribute $10

a year to rent space in the

Moore Building at the corner of

Broadway and E. Houston

Streets. The association

occupied a small rear room on

the fourth floor of the building Dr. Frank Paschal

complete with a journal stand to

hold the periodicals and

literature that the society was beginning to accumulate. This was the

beginning of a long relationship between the society and properties

owned by or named after G. Bedell Moore, a prominent businessman

and real estate investor who had established one of the first large

sawmills in Texas in the late 1800s.

In 1915, the The Bedell Building
society lost
access to its
regular
gathering
space at the
St. Anthony
Hotel and
new quarters
were
obtained in
the Bedell