The main Infirmary building consists of three, 2k story brick wings, u-shaped in plan. with modillions, tin hoodmolds over windows, and brick corbelling between the 2nd and north front facade, terminating at the 2½ story entrance. The rectangular lunatic house or 'jail', built in 1885, is a brick, vernacular Greek entrance features a double-door portal, with glazed, recessed transom, and a stone lintel located, one per floor)-and a metal fire escape to the second story window. Both CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT XALTERED Jail XUNALTERED gable ends have windows like those in the rest of the building. bays long.
Window openings are double-hung,6/6 sash-reminiscent of earlier Greek structures, and is covered with patterned slate.A medium width freize board runs under and the corbel table.A metal fire escape climbs the west facade, and wraps around the CHECK ONE Linwood Road bisects the complex. _DETERIORATED in 1903.A metal cornice and balustrade crown this porch roof. The west wing shows strong Italianate influence, and features a bracketed cornice All three wings rest on high, rough hewn limestone foundations.The west wing has a central and east wings were built in 1898,following demolition of the former wings, arched;windows have stone lug sills with 2/2 double-hung sash. - MOVEDDATE X.FAIR DATE 1 story, glazed and enclosed porch, supported by square brick pillars, which was added The west wing is the oldest (1868), apparently with a k story being added in 1873.
The which were built in the early 1880's. The roof is hipped on all wings, but the west wings roof is truncated. Dormers extend from all three wings also, but are gabled on the eaves of the gable ends. The building is 2½ stories high, three bays wide by five This covered by a later porch with bevelled wood posts supported by concrete bases.This surrounded on the Northwest and Southwest by a glacial stone and concrete fence. The two main buildings which will be described in detail on this form are the u-shaped 2nd floor.The opposing south facade has three vertically placed windows,-(centrally briefly described, and referred to generally, due to the number of structures involved.
the overhanging eaves.A 2 story wooden porch with simple wood posts and railings in 2 story windows.Rectangular clerestory windows pierce the wall between the cornice Revival remnant.The gabled roof is pitched somewhat steeper than earlier Greek Revival geometric designs, extends across the north face of the recessed central wing, and on the west wing and hipped on the other two.Dormer windows are all double-hung,2/2 stone water table.Rectangular basement windows pierce the foundation on all wings. County Home Road and U.S. Route 6.,adjacent to Interstate 75.The complex is mingled The Wood County Home and Infirmary is in a rural setting near the intersection of Infirmary and the adjacent rectangular 'jail'/lunatic house.Other structures will be -RUINS Form No.
10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM Wood County Home and Infirmary, Bowling Green Vicinity, Wood County, Ohio The brick is laid in alternating patterns on the east, south, and west facades, such that In 1873, a toolhouse, washouse, woodshed, hog pen, chicken coop, and corn crib were added. These are mostly small scale, l story, gable roofed structures, which line the complexs' interior driveway, on the south, and have generally been replaced or converted to other The corn crib has been demolished, and the hog pen replaced by a larger hog house.
A gable roofed, board and batten barn built about 1875 as the horse barn, rests across saw the construction of an Ice House and cold storage room, utilizing rock-faced cement main complex, was built using bricks from the demolished Corrill House on W. Wooster St. combination of varying sizestones cemented together to form walls, a:walkway arch, and The interior of the main Infirmary building features central hallways, with rooms to either side, and carved walnut stair-cases. The top k stories are single, large, open Generally, the building offers a labyrinth of rooms on the first two floors. INTERIOR Fences Outbuildings ning bond. The foundation appears to be stucco-covered stone. The glacial stone and concrete picket fences which surround much of the complex were curved entrances. The concrete pickets were molded by Brandeberry in the basement of the Infirmary. rest on stone lug sills.
there is a row of headers every eighthcourse.The north front facade is built in a run- brick power house and stack were laid up in 1898,but the stack and boiler have since DATE ENTERED been removed, and the building is open on the east facade, and used for storage.1905 concrete sides were added to both.A huge cattle barn was constructed in 1892,burned all of which are flat-topped with stone lintels, except for the sliding garage door in 1965,and replaced by a sma1ler park shelter in 1976.A slate covered,hip roofed, FOR NPS USE ONLY ITEM NUMBER 7 cover their openings. The laundry building was completed in 1911, and is also a cement CONTINUATION SHEET Description hoisting ice. Three centrally placed, vertical openings with narrow lintels above each, opening on the west facade.
The windows are square, single sash with four lites, and all PAGE built by superintendent Frank Brandeberry around 1920.The stone wall is a sophisticated block strucutre, which faces the interior driveway.It has a hipped roof covered with AREAS OF
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