Chris Rusanowsky

Photojournalist
   
Baker Hotel
Public Project
Baker Hotel
Copyright Chris Rusanowsky 2024
Updated Jul 2024
Topics Abandonment, Abstract, Art, Business, Conceptual, Documentary, Editorial, Essays, Personal Projects, Still life
In the small town of Mineral Wells, Texas, kids are always trying to find things to do; as someone who grew up in areas like this, abandoned buildings always were a thing to explore, swap ghost stories, and look into history. A group of young kids sneak into an old Hotel built in 1929. The 14-story building towers over anything built in the town but lies in ruins and takes admission to see the hotel with a guided tour. The town of Mineral Wells has a very interesting history. In the 1900s, stories of a woman with mental illness drank from fresh drilled water wells twice a day, and her illness vanished. This was one of the attractions the Baker Hotel thrived with during those early years.
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