Major Bibliographical References Ohio Attest: 10. Geographical Data Verbal boundary description and justification 11. Form Prepared By Chief of Registration Tax Dup1icates,1864-1917. Keeper of the National Register WP Records, Ohio Historical Center Archives. city or town For HCRS use only ACREAGE NOT VERIFIED Board of Equalization Records, 1846-1880. Interview with Dr. J. J. Otis, 10/79; 1/80. History of Mercer County, Bronsart Gilberg, ca 1950. telephone 419-586- 2365, Ext 53 I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register GPO 938 835 CELINA, OHIO BAOKEE.PING FILM VIEWING CONFORMING M/S BATH 73-38 PATIENT WAITING OFFICE MEDICAL DARK CORRIDOR BUSINESS ADMIN.
EMER.GENCY X-RAY CONTROL ROOM STORAGE RECORDS open porch OTIS HOSPITAL FLOOR NURSES SEPT NOKTH 2-BED I-BED ROCM ISTIN 1bed INPATIENT BEDS, MAIN PLAN ENTEY STATICN ENTRANCE ELEV OTIS HOSPITAL OB room 2- BED I - BED, EXISTING ROOF : - FLOOR HAS 9 PROTECTED BY A LABELRO DOOR, CELINA, OHIO 2 2 1980 73-38 delivery STATION PATIENT BED CORRIDOR NURSES DRESSING VATION ELEV. WAY FACILITIES EXIT- AND ÜSLD ONLY FOF NON- FLAMIMIELE CTORAGE. OBSERVATION BED).
(PLUS / CLOSE SEP OTIS HOSPITAL -<EIT 1574 FOOD STORAGE CELINA, OHIO BASEMENT PLAN KITCHEN ENTRANCE LAB PHARMACY CENTRAL LABORATORY laundry room TELEPHONE DINING NORTH 73-38 CORRIDOR ELEV, HOUSEKEEPING SWITCHGEAR UNASSIG.JED ROOM- MECHANICAL T MECHANICAL , 2 1980 PLAN EMERAENCY NOV 2 5 1980 Photos - Inventory _ REVIEW UNIT CHIEF OTHER KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST CONTROL HAER TECHNICAL Send-back Re-submit HISTORIAN Review Property National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry Working Number United States Department of the Interior-Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service accept BRANCH CHIEF 2-2-82- ARCHITECTURAL Entered NOV 25-1980 Chaleton SEP 2 2 1980 Photo No.
1 WOBC FAC NOV 2 5 1980 SEP 2 2 1980 Operating room, Second floor at the top of the open stairs Mike Lamm, DAILY STANDARD #2 Celina, Mercer, taken 4/80 NOV 2 5 1980 SEP 2 2 1980 Typical patient's room, first floor, southwest corner Mike Lamm, DAILY STANDARD #3 Celina, Mercer, Ohio Otis Hospital Ca taken 4/80 STATE OF OHIO CELINA QUADRANGLE OHIO-MERCER CO. ROAD CLASSIFICA ION DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CELINA, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES 1960 Bell, C. S., Thematic Resources St. Paul'a Zpiscopal Church For further information, please call the National Register at (202) 343-6401.
Location Dayton STATE Name Cuyahoga County Wilmington Mercer County Highland County Otis Hospital Also Notified Cincinnati Hillsboro Lafee Buildings Cleveland Date Entered Van Wert County Willshire School Ninth Street Historic District Clinton County Montgomery County Smith Place ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Wil1shire Celina Hamilton Coumty STATE OHIO North Olmsted Brendel, Charles, House Wiles, Perry, Grocery Company Honorable Howard M. Metzenbauhlso Notified Honorable John H. Glenn, JI. Mr. Dellas H. Harder Honorable Tony P. Hall Columbus, Ohio 43211 Honorable Ronald M. Mott1 Location Clossman Hardware Store Name Grant School Muskingum County Date Entered Zanesville The Ohio Historical Society Cuyahoga County Honorable Tennyson Guyer For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. Honorable Delbert L.
Latta Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Acting State Historic Preservation Officer First Universalist Church of Olmsted Honorable Louis Stokes ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Honorable Clarence E. Miller Ohio Power Company North 0lmsted Town Hall NOV 25/480 Honorable W1ll1s D. Gradison, Jr. Honorable William II. Harsha OHIO Dec. 28, I couldn't believe my has been canceled by Dr. James J. Otis, the hospital's owner. of people, so many of them," Penguin Point down. that officials and Cwen Hall, whose businessman, volved in it, that I just couldn't within the building, which had "This Plans for the building remain Saturday, has been canceled. a new building had to be con- uncertain, he said. "I just trust found. As we go into spring and around 1870, and was converted Market present owner. It operated as - Why couldn't half of Celina's terment of our community.
a hospital until 1977, and has fine, It's not an eyesore. When and pray Al Updike, Penguin Point real Wasson preservation officer for the Ohio Maybe next year at this time provide the owner a retroactive what else. Where will it all end? Celina, Ohio be an empty shell, a monument. It should be realized that Otis Hospital still is a good, valuable Hospital The estate tax demolish built into the old hospital. Penguin possible planned center? break plication date. for a Celina location. Sale Of Hospital manager, disgusting thought. landmark being demolished for beenscheduled hospital because it was costing The application burger joint. designation for Otis Hospital. Hamburger Highway (E. perhaps other county operations Prior to announcement of the some use found for it. (Continued on page five) Next year, we as taxpayers, vacant lot than another ham- a fast food restaurant.
landmark in the community for joint. Wendy's will be opening school could not have been put aimed at relocating the county morning on possible other pians make way for a business site, He also noted that "all kinds successful negotiations had been will be too late. But Celina will I fully believe Dr. Jim Otis (Continued from page four) building in this day of high con- are not just doing this so that and white,"Otis Hospital tobe three to six months of the ap- "Ido want to stress that we To knock down such a sound reason or but then it spring and already it's been an- struction costs is a sin and a "which I think will be the most go through with it." a parking lot, but in this case, Donald's, Arby's and who knows offices in the old hospital and razed and to be replaced by will I have notning against Pen- the historical society.
I'm not that "I just arrived at the point will be reading or hearing that remodeling. This building isn't stated this morning that the hospital's designation on the 1 would much rather sce a not preclude building. But, she said, it would completedby the first of next - approval usually occurs within Ind., Register of Historic Places. find a use for buildings had them, really, or because of the pansion and remodeling in 1915 .dilapidated, - in the structure. I would not for .week, where Readers been remodeling Preservation Dr. Otis Cancels restoration, health worth Point remaining department Historic Places summer, Mercer County Commissioners, local couldn'tsee structed for one governmental legislators can work something A Disgusting Sin Celina will have its own Mc- National Dr.
Otis indicated that his established a Celina medical its new Celina location in the He said that Penguin Point when he says he sold the old the Daily Standard on You hate to hear about a that way at all." It's a shame that some type now-canceled sale of Otis Hospital for finally was announced last Dec. 28 purposes of demolition to make way that the property had been sold and for a Penguin Point fast food res- siderable sense. But some decisions, happily, are made for reasons other formidible building to make way for mark, a status achieved by very few local structures. Built originally as a restaurant.
But it also must be noted private residence around 1870, it was opened as a hospital - after extensive expansion and remodeling - by the that it has been and seemed likely to remain a severe monetary drain on its owner, and that those Celinans From that point until its eventual who urged Dr. Otis to reconsider the shutdown 62 years later, the facility sale for the good of the community of not having to pay the bills needed of a calibre that, for most of its tenure, was not routinely available at When Dr. Otis finally changed his the small-town level. mind and called off the sale this week, he was quick to explain that the de- BUT TIMES changed, and medical cision was his alone, based primarily ments with them, and what had been attachment to the building. "I just arrived at the point where I couldn't decades suddenly was unable to meet see that building torn down," he said.
the structural requirements of a later humanly possible to keep his hospital HIS DECISION, in effect, has granted operating, including the installation of an expensive sprinkler system, but An application apparently will be filed graded standards - hall and stairway Places, which would provide federal widths, for example - now required Later, Dr. Otis attempted to con- But, as was noted by Mary Ann vert his facility into a Celina annex Brown, the Ohio Historic Preservation of Coldwater Community Hospital, but that effort was predicated on a de- application will not be filed with the hospital district. It was doomed from to have some use found for it." the start - treatment at the Cold- That, indeed, is the key point.
a patient's contribution of tax funds health care facility, it remains a solid remaining debt - and the proposal and functional building and one with unique ties to Celina's past. It is the kind of building that obviously should Otis Hospital closed shortly there- be preserved, but citing that goal is after, and, with taxes, insurance and upkeep costs still to be met, has been We applaud Dr. Otis' decision to call off the Penguin Point sale. Our hope now is that someone in the near Several subsequent attempts to sell the facility for other uses, in- proposal to provide a new use for an at least temporarily saved historic aimed at converting it into a new cision by Jefferson Township voters assistance in any future restoration late Dr. L.M. Otis in 1915.
something almost obscene about the techniques and bureaucratic require- neighbors with health care services governmental standards for an acute There is no questioning the right-home for the Mercer County Depart- gave their advice with the advantage Celina and Mercer County a reprieve. Penguin Point to note that there is owner ever since. be realized that Otis Hospital still is provided Mercer Countians and its future comes forth with an acceptable to keep it standing. water hospital is not predicated on idea of destroying an historic and still much easier than meeting it. to share in the financial support of Office's local representative,the to secure Otis Hospital's inclusion in While Otis Hospital no longer meets idea of saving the building as "an that Otis Hospital is private property, was defeated overwhelmingly at the of inpatient health care facilities.
It is not a specific criticism of an immense financial liability to its "I just couldn't do it." Otis Hospital is a genuine land- ness of Dr. Jim Otis' point that, from ment agencies, ended in failure, and it the aged structure could not be remodeled to achieve sharply up- empty shell, a monument. It should the Coldwater facility by joining a good, valuable building and needs retirement polls. Mercer Hospital A Reprieve For Celina structure. than practicality. RECEIVED REGISTER
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