Henry Ohloff House at 601 Steiner Street, on the northwest corner of Fell and Steiner Street. Prominently displayed are the mandatory stairways required of an institution. Queen Anne style built in 1891 as a 5-bedroom single family home. In the 1920s, it became a convalescent home and, at the time, the square tower on the right was built to house machinery for an industrial sized elevator. By the 1950s, this was known as the Hillcrest Sanatorium. In 1958, the building was bought by the Episcopal Church along with two buildings to the north as a recovery home for men aged 18 to 64 with substance abuse problems. They can house up to 52 clients; the program is a 6-month program. It was named after the Episcopal pastor, Reverend Jacob Henry Ohloff, who was known as the skid-row priest. See related slides for the stained glass from the original home. The photo is by K. Frazzini, student.
