United States Marine Hospital (Cincinnati)

The first hospital was completed in 1860 For its first few months, it operated through donations by local citizens. The building was sold in 1924 to Henry C. Rocker to be converted to apartments. In 1946, it contained 38 apartments and 112 rooms. The building remained in use until it was condemned in 1970 and demolished for the construction of the Daniel Carter Beard Bridge and the adjoining interchange between Interstate 71 and Interstate 471. == Second hospital ==

The second hospital was originally built around 1815 as the mansion of grocery and hardware merchant David Kilgour. It was a brick colonial structure with an ornate front porch with columns at the end of Third Street at the base of Mount Adams, and was known as the White House. It later passed to Charles H. Kilgour, a founder of Cincinnati Bell. Two wings were constructed as hospital wards, with the original mansion used for administration. River traffic on the Ohio River decreased such that in 1905 only eight patients used the hospital, and it was closed that year. In 1913, the building was reopened by the government as a Field Investigation Station for water pollution research. It grew into the Public Health Service's primary environmental health research center. The laboratory moved to the Robert A. Taft Laboratory in the Columbia-Tusculum neighborhood in 1954, and eventually became the Environmental Protection Agency's Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Center. Despite efforts to preserve it as a historical building, the mansion was demolished after the government moved out in 1951. == References ==