A public hearing will be held on March 17, at 6 p.m., for a request to change the zoning for an historic building at 416 W. Wooster St., Bowling Green.
Bowling Green City Council heard the first reading Monday evening of the ordinance amending the zoning district map for the approximately 0.3 acres from PR pedestrian-residential zoning to R-2 medium density residential zoning.
The change would allow the structure, owned by Anesa Miller, to be turned into a duplex.
Bowling Green physician and pharmacist Dr. Andrew J. Manville built the red brick building as his family home in the 1860s or 1870s. As was customary in that era, Manville saw patients in a specially equipped part of the house.
Later, the building was popularly called the “Old Hospital,” and historically has been known as Community Hospital. It served as the main medical center of Wood County from 1932 to 1951. Many residents still living in Northwest Ohio were born there.
By 1961 the hospital had become the Community Nursing Home, which became Adams Manor Nursing Home in 1965 and the Wooster Manor Nursing Home in 1984. In 1993, the nursing home closed, and the building has been vacant since then.
Last month, the city planning commission recommended the zoning change be approved. City Council will make a decision on the request after the public hearing.
