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*Alum Crest Nursing Home
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*Regency Manor Rehabilitation and Subacute Center (Current)
 
 
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==History==
 
==History==
The Franklin County Infirmary opened November 1, 1883. The first County Infirmary, initially known as the poor house, was built in 1833 at the fork of the Scioto and Olentangy Rivers and housed nine residents. In 1869 land was purchased to build a larger and more accessible facility at the west end of King Avenue. Plans were drawn up by the architect N. B. Kelly but the County Commissioners decided the project too expensive and the land was sold. By 1876 ninety eight acres of land were purchased on Eberle Road (now Alum Creek Drive).  On November 1, 1883 residents moved into the new infirmary, built to accommodate 350 residents.  The plans were similar to those originally created for the property on King Avenue. The infirmary continued to be used for 85 years until new buildings were erected in 1968. 
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On December 1, 1869, the county commissioners purchased 150 acres on the west side of the Olentangy River, two miles north of the State House, one mile west of High Street for the new county Infirmary. It consisted of a central administrative section and two distinct parts for male and female patients, with a kitchen in the basement, two dining rooms on the second floor, and a chapel on the third floor. The fire proof building was equipped with steam heat and gas lights
  
Initially the institution was used to house single men and women, generally elderly, with no families and unable to work. Eventually the infirmary also cared for the “insane,” the mentally disabled and children under sixteen years of age.
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The Franklin County Infirmary was razed in 1968 and became the site of Alum Crest Nursing Home. Regency Manor Rehabilitation and Subacute Center replaced Alum Crest in 1991.
  
 
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