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Mariemont’s Mercy St.Theresa: A Retrospective
Mariemont Hospital circa 1925.
By Peter McBride A full-service hospital to serve Mariemont and nearby communities was an important part of Mrs. Marie Emery’s gifted vision of an exemplary village. Accordingly, construction work for “Mariemont Hospital” began very early on - in 1924, in fact.
materialize until 1942.” The revered Mariemont historian, former director emeritus of the Cincinnati Art Museum, and founder of The Mariemont Preservation Foundation offered the following observation about what is now Mariemont’s Mercy St. Theresa, 7010 Rowan Hill Dr., and the surrounding area:
Yet, in A Descriptive and Pictorial Story of Mariemont (© Ohio University Press, 2011), author Millard F. Rogers Jr. stated, “Expectations exceeded accomplishments with the hospital, for its service to Mariemont and the surrounding eastern suburbs did not
• Mariemont Hospital was part of a larger undertaking named “Resthaven Gardens,” which was designed to be a “complete retirement neighborhood” for workers in Emery businesses who had “grown old in service [that they] may have a comfortable
home amid pleasant surroundings for the remainder of their lives.” • The highest point in Mariemont in the northeast part of the Village on the slope of Indian Hill was chosen as the site for the hospital. • The Resthaven project was designed by New York architect Hubert H. Reeves and was subdivided as per John Nolen’s subdivided lot plans. • The complex, in the area roughly below and proximate to the hospital, included a barn Cont'd on page 4