{"nrhp_refnum":"97001224","name":"Lucas County Hospital and Nurse's Home","other_names":["Maumee Valley Hospital and Nurse's Home","Area Office on Aging"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2101 and 2155 Arlington Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Toledo","county":"Lucas County","state":"OH","lat":41.62249563600005,"lon":-83.59562880499999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-10-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Health/Medicine","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A pair of brick-and-stone institutional buildings, a five-story county hospital and a three-story nurse's home, at 2101 and 2155 Arlington Avenue in Toledo, Ohio. They were completed in 1931 on the former Lucas County Poor Farm and Infirmary grounds and designed by Stophlet & Stophlet.","why_significant":"The buildings are the surviving physical record of a site used continuously for public welfare since the mid-nineteenth century, after nearly all other historic buildings on the campus were demolished. The nomination also describes them as the only known interrelated public hospital and nurse's home pair nominated in the country's hospital-related listings. They are good examples of Georgian Revival design with Tudor Revival interiors by a small Toledo firm known for institutional work.","narrative":"Two institutional buildings on Arlington Avenue in Toledo, a five-story hospital and a three-story nurse's home, were completed in 1931 for Lucas County. Toledo architects Stophlet & Stophlet designed both in a Georgian Revival manner, using brick walls, limestone ground floors, pilasters, and cornices, with Tudor Revival interiors. The hospital is 384 feet long and keeps its two-story operating theater. The nurse's home contains richly paneled rooms, including the cherry-lined Windsor Drawing Room with an Elizabethan-style fireplace. The buildings stand on land used as the county poor farm and infirmary since the mid-nineteenth century. Most other buildings on the campus were demolished, mainly in the 1970s and 1980s, leaving these two as the survivors of that history. The hospital closed in 1980 and now sits vacant and damaged, with reuse as senior housing proposed. The nurse's home was renovated and has housed the Area Office on Aging since 1984.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Stophlet & Stophlet (Toledo)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival (Georgian Revival); Tudor Revival interiors","criteria":[],"status_note":"The hospital closed in 1980 and is vacant, with vandalism and water damage; the county has installed a new roof and boarded openings. The Nurse's Home was renovated in 1981-84 and is in use as offices of the Area Office on Aging.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.59332-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/97001224.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001224/1080aa2d68-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001224/1080aa2d68-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Front_of_the_former_Lucas_County_Hospital.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Front_of_the_former_Lucas_County_Hospital.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990001","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138548608"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lucas-county/lucas-county-hospital-and-nurses-home-97001224/"}