The Kyle Hotel was built as a direct result of the 1920s growth at Scott and White Hospital. When it opened, the hotel was a first-class establishment managed by the prestigious Baker chain. The Kyle Hotel had a barbershop, beauty salon, coffee shop, roof garden, laundry, valet, tailoring services, banquet hall, and a presidential suite with porch. Scott and White Hospital leased the upper floors for hotel accommodations for families of patients and outpatient care. Financial difficulties and low hotel occupancy resulted in change of hotel management in 1933. In the 1960s, with hotel occupancy on the  decline and Scott and White Hospital farther away, the building was converted to apartments and public space was rented  to civic and social groups.