The Pink Brinkley Mansion

Our weird place of the day

When visiting an area, I always look on Google Maps to find places to see. We were at the Whitehead Memorial Museum, and the Brinkley Mansion also popped up as a Historical Landmark.

I am all about visiting anything historical.

We drove to the address and Rich said, “Wow, it’s pink.”

It sure was pink. Pink Spanish stucco. Gorgeous in its own way.

We stopped out front on the road and I took a few pictures. We thought it looked like someone lived there so we drove on.

After the fact, I looked it up and researched it through Texas Historical Markers and found out that there were two historical markers we missed at this place.

Dr. John Brinkley was a quack who became a millionaire by selling bogus impotence treatments in the 1920s. He implanted goat testicles in men to restore their vitality. My first thought about that is what man would allow another man to do that?

He liked attention, so he built the dancing waterfall out front and decorated it with colored lights and hired a live organist to play dancing music through a speaker system and people would come from all over and dance in the street to the music.

Our weird place of the day.